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!

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.

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

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

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

"The witch was on her broom with her..." Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader's wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

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

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

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.

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 will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

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

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

If your students need extra practice structuring a personal narrative, use this prompt to write a story about something that was difficult for them.

A good introduction draws a reader into the story and makes them want to learn more. Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing strong introductions using this helpful worksheet.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

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.

No more abrupt “The End”s! Students will organize and reflect on their narrative’s problem and solution as they work toward a strong ending.

What if the monster under the bed was just lonely and shy? Have some spooky fun with this writing prompt to challenge your point of view.

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.

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

Can your little writer tell which sentence will make this thought complete? Help her practice using inference and reading for context clues.

Flex those creative writing skills by starting a story in a few different ways! Use the picture as a prompt, and use each technique to start a story.

What would happen if Baba Yaga had a hoarding intervention? Get to know a famous and eerie Russian folktale with this creative writing exercise.

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.

Learners will sharpen their creative writing skills as they brainstorm hilarious titles of their own using this worksheet.

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

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