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1st and 2nd Grade Prewriting Resources : Page 2

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

Biography Timeline

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Story Planning Worksheet

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Story Mountain Prewriting

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Create Your Own Pumpkin Person!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Glossary: Create a Nonfiction Big Book

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Design a Diorama!

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Storyboard

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

Vocabulary Cards: Create a Nonfiction Big Book

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Make a Sentence: Intermediate

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

Plan Your Narrative

It’s fun to dream about the future! In this activity, students write a persuasive paragraph about why their dream career is a good choice.

What Will You Be When You Grow Up?

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

My Story's Characters

Learners can gather a lot of information about veterans and their former jobs by interviewing them on Veterans Day. Use the worksheet Interview a Veteran to have students ask veterans questions and write down their answers.

Interview a Veteran

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

STEM Design Challenge: Brainstorm and Reflection Sheet

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

Sea Turtle Sentences

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Write a Thanksgiving Day Poem

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Ingredients of a Story

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Story Board

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Draw and Write

What is this tennis player doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Sporty Sentence Making

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!

"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

Make a Speedy Sentence

Ready for sentence building liftoff! This worksheet will help your second grader build his creative writing skills and practice forming sentences.

Make a Space Shuttle Sentence

What do want to be when you grow up? This worksheet gives kids the space to represent their answer to that question through drawing and writing.

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

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.

Convince Me: Persuasive Writing Practice

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Tall Tales for Kids

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Pencil Toppers

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

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