Mapping out your thoughts before you start writing is key to a well-organized essay. Your students will map their first draft of a personal narrative using this graphic organizer.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

What things do you like? Little writers will get some excellent handwriting practice with this simple list story.

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

A magical pirate scene serves as a prompt for young writers in this creative writing worksheet.

Before students write opinion pieces, they need to understand the difference between facts and opinions. This worksheet teaches them to do just that by having students cut out various statements and sort them into fact and opinion categories.

Give this delectable worksheet to your 1st grader to practice opinion writing! Your child will love talking about his favorite ice cream.

This open-ended worksheet inspires students to research fascinating inventors!

It's raining, it's pouring... This cute and colorful printable gets learners thinking about their favorite rainy day activities.

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

In writing, supporting the main idea with details is a skill your child should learn early on. Your second grader will fill in the details about a best friend!

Practice creative writing with some simple sentence prompts. Fill in the holes to describe what it's like to swim in the ocean.

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

This worksheet walks second and third graders through the steps of planning and writing a persuasive paragraph, from selecting a topic to forming an opinion and providing reasoning for their opinion.

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Students will love learning about a new animal as they create an informational report using this helpful guide!

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

Help your young students learn the importance of transition words in this fun activity. By filling in the missing words, students discover how transition words help structure procedural writing.

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

Use this helpful writing prompt to assess your students’ ability to share their opinions through writing.

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.

Young learners will find three paper dolls and nine outfits they can use to try on a variety of careers in this engaging paper play set.

Use this handy worksheet to help your students (and you!) keep track of their writing goals. Refer to the goals during writing workshop conferences, and be sure to have students add to them and revise them as needed.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.