4th - 8th Grade Prewriting Worksheets

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

This worksheet template guides children through the pre-writing and writing process, helping them to organize their thoughts before they write.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

This worksheet bundle rounds up some writing prompts for your child to explore different writing styles.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.