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

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

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

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

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

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.

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

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

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

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

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.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

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.

Roarrr!! What is this T-Rex trying to say? Help your second grader build his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

This friendly sea turtle is trying to say something, can you help him? Give your second grader practice writing sentences with this worksheet.

Can you name what trick this skateboarder is doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

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

Ready to add some magic to the standard creative writing process?

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Take a stab at haiku poetry with this free-form haiku writing worksheet. All you need is imagination and a pen!

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

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!

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!