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!

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

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

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

Your students will have fun developing the setting of a story with this graphic organizer.

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.

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

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

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

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

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.

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

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

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

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.

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.

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Give your students extra practice in writing titles and headlines that include correct capitalization.

Help your kindergarten students learn about sequencing and science as they learn about the five stages in a ladybugs life.

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

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

It’s fun to dream about the future! In this activity, students write a persuasive paragraph about why their dream career is a good choice.

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.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.