This story starter featuring an alien leaving to attend a birthday party will spark the imagination and provide writing practice, too!

Did you spill the salt? Step on a crack? Do you even care? You decide what, if anything, causes bad luck. Get the juices flowing for some creative writing.

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

A diamante poem is a diamond shaped poem. Show your students an example of this type of poem and invite them write their own diamantes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

Learners hone their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about Valentine's Day gift exchanges!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Connections with Our Feelings.

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and determine a person whom they should thank. Your students will write a thank you note to that person.

Traditions are an important part of a family’s culture. They signify what they think, how they behave or do something, and they are passed down from generation to generation. Does your learner know all about their family traditions? Use this worksheet to

What is going to happen next in this story? Become a storyteller with this fun comprehension worksheet!

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Little Easter Bunnies, get out your creative thinking caps and delve into this Easter writing prompt. Can you think up the best Easter egg hunt?

This 3-page worksheet about opinion writing for kids provides a topic and poses questions to help them organize their thoughts and write their opinion.

Use this assessment and the corresponding rubric to see how well students write personal narratives!

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

How can you show love to your friends and family? Get students thinking deeply with this Easter-themed writing prompt!

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Dialogue.

Learning how use written sources—and avoid plagiarism—is important for any young writer. Practice paraphrasing with this passage about the Ohlone.

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

This board game doesn't require any strategy, just some imagination and creativity! Tell a story to make it through the obstacles to the other side.

Transition words are essential to good writing! They provide structure and organization by connecting ideas and sentences. Help your students become familiar with common transition words with this fun word search!

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.