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

Put a little imagination into writing practice! Kids will imagine up a new animal species and write a descriptive paragraph about it.

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

What would happen if Megalodon and the Loch Ness Monster went head-to-head? Your budding writer can have fun narrating this epic battle!

What if Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman were stranded on a desert island together? It's up to your creative writer to tell the rest of the story.

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

This Easter writing prompt will get your child to think about Easter traditions and then order his thoughts by practicing structured composition.

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

Calculating caterpillars and capricious crayfish! Your child will be laughing as he learns some new vocabulary and practices using alliteration.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Uh oh! Either way you're in trouble with this scary and thrilling creative writing prompt.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Can you spot the yeti? Help your child learn about a famous mythical creature with this page all about the yeti!

If your students need extra practice structuring a personal narrative, use this prompt to write a story about something that was difficult for them.

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.