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1st - 8th Grade Common Core Prewriting Worksheets : Page 3

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

How to Outline a Short Story

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of the Pilgrims and report back to the Queen herself about life in the New England colonies.

New England Colonies Postcard

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

Ice Cream Graphic Organizer

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Story Sequencing: Lunch Time

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Personal Narrative: Surprise!

How far can you stretch these sentences? Give your young writer a creativity boost with this clever sentence practice sheet.

Sentence Practice

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Personal Narrative Organizer: Surprise!

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

Creative Writing: Living Underwater

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

Sort the Story: Amanda & the Panda

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

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Persuasive Writing Prompt Cards

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

Create A Superhero

Your students will have fun developing the setting of a story with this graphic organizer.

Writing Narratives: Plan the Setting

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Two Truths and One Lie: Sonia Sotomayor

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Fall Resolution Leaves

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

All About My Pumpkin Person

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Writing in Response to Reading

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

Great Writing Starts with Golden Ideas

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Find the Central Message: Literary Response

Take a stab at haiku poetry with this free-form haiku writing worksheet. All you need is imagination and a pen!

Write a Haiku

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

Outline a Fictional Character

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Writing Prompt: Stranded on a Deserted Island

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

Why is this dinosaur holding an egg? Help your second grader get creative with his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Make a Dinosaur Sentence

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Realistic Fiction Writing Assessment

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.

Describe Your Home

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

Sporty Sentence Making

Learners can gather a lot of information about a topic or issue by interviewing career professionals from the community. Use this Guest Speaker Interview worksheet to have students ask a speaker questions and write down their answers.

Guest Speaker Career Interview 

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

Characterization

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.

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