Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Take notes on peer conversations as students explain points that support their answers.

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

Floyd and Roly are best friends and neighbors! Help your child stretch his writing skills with this fill-in-the-speech-bubbles worksheet.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

What would happen if Baba Yaga had a hoarding intervention? Get to know a famous and eerie Russian folktale with this creative writing exercise.

Show your fifth-grader it's possible to make your own comic rather than just read them. He'll work on creative writing while he's at it!

Peter Pan says what? Your child adds to the famous story with his imagination in this fun writing exercise.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

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

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Take notes of student peer conversations all in one document!

Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this fun worksheet.

Get your fifth grader to polish his writing chops with this write-it-yourself comic.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

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.

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

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

Challenge your students to refine their thinking and explanations!