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This story starter featuring an alien butterfly catcher will surely put your little one in a silly mood! Add color to the picture and write a story about it.

Story Starter: Alien Butterfly Catcher

Children will use their imaginations to write and illustrate a short nonfiction essay in this creative writing exercise.

Write a Story: Magic Land

Your child can write a short story about the family dog (or make one up) while perfecting his penmanship!

Write and Draw Story Time: Dog

Here are four examples of mineral resources for kids to think about, plus a short explanation of what a mineral resource is.

Example of Mineral Resources

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Best Friends Forever Literary Response

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

Story Mapping Group Work

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

Opinion Writing: My Favorite Food

Featuring Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch, this creative writing lesson gives students the chance to turn themselves into the main characters of emotion-packed short stories.

What Happens Next?

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

Stand Up Like Malala

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

All About Wangari Maathai

Good storytelling always includes a great ending! Your students will learn academic vocabulary and add their own conclusion to a short story. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as an introduction to the Write Your Own Ending lesson plan.

Conclude a Story

Help your ELs use transition words as they make predictions and summarize a short fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Making Predictions and Summarizing

This lesson will help your students summarize short stories and describe how characters respond to challenges using a story map. Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for the Story Mapping Group Work lesson plan.

Map a Story

How do people celebrate Diwali? Help your little one learn about a traditional Hindu holiday celebrated in the fall.

Diwali Traditions

Your child can grab her pencils, both plain and colored, and get to work flexing her literary muscles by writing an illustrating a fairy tale.

Fairy Tale Writing Prompt

Feeling grateful is what Thanksgiving is all about! Let your first grader express his gratitude with a fun drawing activity.

Giving Thanks

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

All About Misty Copeland

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Who is Angela Davis?

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

All About Jane Goodall

Is your first grader a heart surgeon in the making? Or maybe a world-famous chef? Encourage your child to explore the future as he practices his handwriting.

Practice Handwriting: Careers

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

Topic Sentence

&quot;The witch was on her broom with her...&quot; Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader&#39;s wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

Halloween Story Starter 2

When Christina Koch and Jessica Meir traveled to the International Space Station in October 2019, they went down in history as having completed the first all-female spacewalk. Children can learn about this momentous trip with the help of this worksheet.

The First All-Female Spacewalk

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Story Comprehension: What Happens Next?

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Don&rsquo;t be scared of writing! Tell a story about a scarecrow in this fun autumnal activity!

A Day in the Life of a Scarecrow

Search for supporting evidence in this second-grade reading worksheet!

You’ve Got Mail! Letter Writing #3

Everyone loves an intriguing introduction! Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing new and improved introductions to well-loved fictional stories in this fun writing lesson.

Capture That Reader!

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

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