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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Help your child improve his writing skills with this printable worksheet that asks him to describe what he likes to do at school.

Let your first grader brag a bit about his best skills and enjoyable, after-school activities.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Set goals for the year ahead with this New Year's resolutions template!

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Assess their growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric.

A polar bear on a beach? Give your silly storyteller a fun way to practice her writing skills with this picture-perfect story starter.

Complete this creative writing activity by writing a paragraph describing what you would do if you had the power to freeze time!

What if you discovered a secret passageway in your house! Write a story to tell what you'd do next in that situation.

With a simple prompt and plenty of blank space to fill, this worksheet is just the thing to get kids' creative writing wheels turning.

What did you do this summer? Your kids will love sharing about their favorite summer activity while you assess your students' abilities to write a personal narrative.

Flex those creative writing skills by starting a story in a few different ways! Use the picture as a prompt, and use each technique to start a story.

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

Exaggeration in storytelling is no big secret. Help your child write a story about himself with this exercise in telling tall tales.

Put your budding reader's creative side to the test with this worksheet that encourages him to come up with an alternate ending to a passage you assign.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Second graders love telling stories! Help them take one small moment and write across many pages using this helpful planning organizer.

Children are invited to dream up their ideal animal companion in this fun creative writing exercise.

Can you imagine what it's like to be the Easter Bunny? Get your child in the Easter mood with this fun writing prompt!

Finish this cartoon by writing the script and filling the speech bubbles.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

It’s almost the end of the school year! How are your kindergarten students progressing in their writing skills? Use this helpful, open-ended writing prompt to assess your students’ narrative writing.

Children will use their imaginations to write a fanciful holiday story in this creative writing worksheet.

What would you wish for if you had the chance? This writing prompt is a fun way to get beginning writers using their creativity.

This spooky fortune teller needs some help entertaining his turtle visitor with a creative story!

What kinds of games would you play in the jungle? Give your little monkey a fun way to practice her storytelling skills with this story starter prompt.

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

What would happen if two snails entered a race? Start your own story with these slow-and-steady snails!

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.