Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will consider past birthdays to see if they can come up with a small moment to focus their narratives on.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by selecting interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will brainstorm about past adventures they've had and then choose one moment to focus their narratives on.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will generate ideas about big events they've experienced and then pick one to focus their narratives on.

Students will use a comic book format to organize conversations within their personal narratives and practice the writing process.

As students begin the task of writing their narratives, this fun worksheet encourages them to remember to spell these common sight words correctly.

There are many ways to spice up personal narratives. From dialogue to pictures, this worksheet teaches students the benefit of adding descriptive elements to their writing.

Drawings are fun to incorporate into writing and can add a lot to a story. In this worksheet, young writers learn the importance of labeling the illustrations they include in their narratives.

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help students practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story of a birthday.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

In this three-page template, students will follow the prompts to create a story map about a memorable moment of joy in their life.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

In this simple reading comprehension exercise, learners will learn the difference between realism and fantasy, along with clues for spotting each.

Children will use their imaginations to write a fanciful holiday story in this creative writing worksheet.

Children will use their imaginations to write and illustrate a short nonfiction essay in this creative writing exercise.

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Children will enjoy dreaming up their dream Valentine's Day gift in this simple drawing and writing prompt.