Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

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

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.

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

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.

Mmmm! Can you smell the Christmas cookies in the oven? Warm up your child's writing skills with this Christmas cookies writing prompt.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

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

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

It's time to brainstorm! Use this worksheet to help budding writers generate a list of ideas and topics for future stories, as well as give students a chance to practice their letter and word spacing.

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

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

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

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

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

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.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Does your child need a head start in creative writing? Give her this story starter worksheet, and she'll help Marnie figure out how to bake her muffins!

How far can you stretch these sentences? Give your young writer a creativity boost with this clever sentence practice sheet.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Get your little storyteller in gear for creative writing! This story starter worksheet is perfect for honing your child's writing skills.

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!

It's never too early to start planning for your future! After imagining what their lives will be like at age 25, students write persuasive letters to their parents asking for their support.

Where could this map lead to? Give your beginning writer a fun way to exercise his creativity.

Did you know that kids all over the globe know of the boogeyman? This cautionary tale is told in almost every country!

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

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

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.