Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

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.

There's more than one way to hook a reader! Help your students reinforce their understanding of captivating story starters with this Goldilocks-themed matching worksheet.

Relive the experience of trying something new with this personal narrative writing prompt for third, fourth, and fifth graders!

We’ve all started a new school or class, but each experience is unique! Write about yours with this third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade prompt.

Reflect on a special friendship with this upper elementary writing worksheet!

Get students thinking deeply with this spring-themed writing prompt about new beginnings!

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help students practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story of a birthday.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

Learn how to write dialogue with this writing activity that, in the long run, will help you better understand literature.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

Oh, no, our prince has a dragon hot on his heels...really, really hot! Let your 1st grade author decide what happens next.

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.

What is Georgie Porgie up to? Build phonics and comprehension skills with this nursery rhyme worksheet.

Learn about your classmates’ preferences on entertainment, weather, food, travel, and everything in between with this “would you rather” activity!

Children will go on a nature walk and observe their surroundings, then write a letter to nature, in this two-page mindfulness worksheet.

Share all about yourself with this getting-to-know-you writing activity!

Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

The best type of introduction makes you want to learn more! Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing new and improved introductions using this grabby worksheet.

Untangle the strands of a story with this spider web graphic organizer!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

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

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!