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!

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Students learn how to support an opinion by addressing opposing viewpoints.

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.

Have you ever knocked on wood to counter-jinx yourself? Now it's time to find out the truth behind this well-known superstition!

This Easter writing prompt will get your child to think about Easter traditions and then order his thoughts by practicing structured composition.

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

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

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

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.

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!

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

Uh oh! Either way you're in trouble with this scary and thrilling creative writing prompt.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Imagine if the classic Christmas story, The Nutcracker, was actually a Halloween story! How would that change the way the story was told?

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

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

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

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

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

Can you spot the yeti? Help your child learn about a famous mythical creature with this page all about the yeti!

How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.