Search 5th Grade Language Arts Fiction Writing Educational Resources

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

What if you could make up your own animal species? Your child will have fun as she uses her imagination to hone her writing skills.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

Encourage your students to use imagery - visually descriptive language that paints a picture. Ask your students to rewrite vague statements with vivid imagery.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have your child select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

A soccer ball flies toward the goalie, but what happens next? Let your budding writer create his own story, using this picture prompt as a starting point.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe their dream summer vacation.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Children learn about three songs that inspired and gave hope to the people who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad, then answer questions about what they have learned.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

What if you had $1,000, but you couldn't spend it on yourself? Flex your creativity and goodwill thinking with this writing prompt.

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Use this template to plan and create an original comic.