This Halloween story starter will help your child polish grammar, handwriting and spelling skills. Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween story starter!

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

What's going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child's creativity to be complete!

You decide what's happening on the page by drawing and writing it in!

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.

Do you remember your favorite Christmas experience? Get your little writer to practice her creative writing with a fun prompt.

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

Does your creative writer love to have a spooky good time with his stories? This ghostly worksheet will get him in the spirit!

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.

Challenge your students to refine their thinking and explanations!

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

Got an aspiring comic book writer on your hands? Spark your fourth grader's creativity with this comic strip-writing adventure!

Help students create their own division word problems!

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.