Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

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 are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

What is this tennis player doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Why is this dinosaur holding an egg? Help your second grader get creative with his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Practice retelling familiar stories using this detail-oriented worksheet!

Follow Chuck on vacation by looking at the pictures he took! What is he doing in each picture? Use your imagination and creativity to write captions for each.

What story can your second grader come up with for this winter scene? They also get some coloring time to go along with the story they write.

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

Take a look at the colorful monster and practice writing by describing him!

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Ready for sentence building liftoff! This worksheet will help your second grader build his creative writing skills and practice forming sentences.

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

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.

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

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

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Ask your kindergarten students to help Sam get ready in the right order. In this activity, students will learn about sequencing.

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