Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

What story can your second grader come up with for this winter scene? They also get some coloring time to go along with the story they write.

Have a blast completing this mouth-watering writing exercise by writing down the steps you would take to create the perfect ice cream sundae.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Have you ever wanted to be someone new? In this fun worksheet, students can apply to the job of the Easter Bunny!

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

This joker is walking right into bad luck, literally! You get to decide what happens to him after he walks under this ladder. Be as creative as you want.

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.

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

You've never heard a ghost story like The Phantom Knight of Vandal Camp! Discover the scares, if you dare, behind this tale before writing the ending.

This cuddly bear has a story to tell! Give your child a head start writing his own story with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest.

Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?

Is that polar bear eating an ice cream cone? Get your child into a creative writing mood with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest!

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

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

Is that a pirate on a dinosaur's back? Yes. Why? Let your child decide (and slip in great composition skills practice)!

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Did you know that in Australia, December 25th is actually during the summer? Imagine if we celebrated Christmas during the summer!

Here's a writing prompt to put a jig in your step, and pep in your writing practice!

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

What if Dorothy's house had landed in New York City instead of Oz?

Where could this map lead to? Give your beginning writer a fun way to exercise his creativity.