Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Show your fifth-grader it's possible to make your own comic rather than just read them. He'll work on creative writing while he's at it!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

Do you remember your favorite Christmas experience? Get your little writer to practice her creative writing with a fun prompt.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

Does your creative writer love to have a spooky good time with his stories? This ghostly worksheet will get him in the spirit!

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

By writing his own story in this worksheet, your child can learn to "fill in the blanks" of reading comprehension.

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

What would happen if Baba Yaga had a hoarding intervention? Get to know a famous and eerie Russian folktale with this creative writing exercise.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Get creative with this Halloween writing exercise. Your child will write a brief paragraph on the topic provided. Think scary thoughts!

What if Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman were stranded on a desert island together? It's up to your creative writer to tell the rest of the story.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Record the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of winter! This winter writing prompt challenges your child to practice sensory description.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

You decide what's happening on the page by drawing and writing it in!

Have a blast completing this mouth-watering writing exercise by writing down the steps you would take to create the perfect ice cream sundae.