Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

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

If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

Put a little imagination into writing practice! Kids will imagine up a new animal species and write a descriptive paragraph about it.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

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!

This worksheet walks students through the three main formatting strategies writers can use when organizing and pacing their narratives.

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

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

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.

Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Little Easter Bunnies, get out your creative thinking caps and delve into this Easter writing prompt. Can you think up the best Easter egg hunt?

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.

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.

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.