Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

This worksheet explains to kids what an acrostic poem is, and then challenges them to write an acrostic poem that describes each word provided.

Ask your students to revise Kenny's ice cream paragraph and help him get to the point by combining sentences.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Summer writing can start with drawing something fun, or thinking about their favorite parts of warm days. This worksheet is a fun quick-start for ideas.

Help your child get started on his storytelling skills with this worksheet about characters!

Your young writer can practice his storytelling skills with this character development worksheet, where he'll outline 4 fictional characters.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

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.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

This checklist can be be used when revising all types of writing! Have students use this handy writing tool to help them make their writing as strong as can be as they check for correct spelling, use of details, neatness, and more!