5th 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of the Pilgrims and report back to the Queen herself about life in the New England colonies.

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

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

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

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

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.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Organizing your thoughts is an essential part of the writing process. It's easy--and fun--with this brainstorming worksheet.

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

Your young writer can practice his storytelling skills with this character development worksheet, where he'll outline 4 fictional characters.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

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

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

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

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?