Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

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.

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

Does your child need a head start in creative writing? Give her this story starter worksheet, and she'll help Marnie figure out how to bake her muffins!

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

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

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

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

Where could this map lead to? Give your beginning writer a fun way to exercise his creativity.

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Help your students' confidence in writing persuasive essays grow with this tree graphic organizer. Using this worksheet, students will make connections between opinion, reasons, and examples in their persuasive writing.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

What if you discovered a secret passageway in your house! Write a story to tell what you'd do next in that situation.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

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.

Students will put their persuasive skills to work with this worksheet. They will plan and write a draft of a persuasive paragraph on whether or not to buy an electronic device of their choosing.

In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

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.

You've never heard a ghost story like The Phantom Knight of Vandal Camp! Discover the scares, if you dare, behind this tale before writing the ending.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

What if Dorothy's house had landed in New York City instead of Oz?

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

We all know the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs, but no one has heard it from the wolf's point of view!

This joker is walking right into bad luck, literally! You get to decide what happens to him after he walks under this ladder. Be as creative as you want.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.