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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.

My Story's Characters

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will generate ideas about big events they've experienced and then pick one to focus their narratives on.

Story Brainstorm: Big Events

Strong narratives have clear sequences of events. Through this lesson, students plan out what will happen in their story before they start writing their own engaging narratives. 

Plan Your Story: Sequence of Events

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Glossary: Who are the Key Characters?

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

Narrative Writing: Describe Characters

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Vocabulary Cards: Who are the Key Characters?

Looking for a worksheet to help your child with patterns? This printable worksheet will give him practice with creating a logical sequence of events.

Draw a Sequence Story

Featuring Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch, this creative writing lesson gives students the chance to turn themselves into the main characters of emotion-packed short stories.

What Happens Next?

Your students will love learning all about the playful characters in a classic read-aloud text while digging into what makes characters unique. Use as a stand-alone or support lesson for the How to Analyze a Character lesson plan.

Using Evidence to Analyze a Character

Invite your students to jog their memories, recall events, and write about what happened to them this morning. This worksheet challenges students to fill the entire page with words.

It Happened to Me

What adventures can a reindeer, candy cane, and a snowman embark on? Let’s find out! In this writing lesson, students will write a Christmas-themed narrative incorporating characters, setting, problem, and solution. 


Christmas Adventure Writing

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Story Planning Worksheet

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.

Story Board

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Write a Thanksgiving Day Poem

Fill in this story map to organize the details of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

Jack and the Beanstalk Story Map

Students love comic books! Channel their excitement for this fun genre and get their creative writing juices flowing.  By writing their own comic strips, students will be practicing composing, sequencing, and using dialogue.


BAM! POW! Comic Strip Writing

Kids strengthen their pre-writing skills and learn about character development with this planning worksheet.

Write Your Supporting Character

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

Picture Story Starter

Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

Character Detectives

When your child uses this worksheet, he'll work on his storytelling ability and a ton of other helpful skills as well.

Tell the Story: Fishing

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Three Little Pigs Puppets

This cat looks crafty, but how does the story end? Give your child a head start writing a creative story with this fun coloring page.

Kitty Cat Story Starter

What is going to happen next in this story? Become a storyteller with this fun comprehension worksheet!

What is Going to Happen?

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

What Will Happen Next?

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

Story Starters: What's Going On?

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

Main Ideas and Details

ELs will get a chance to practice their listening and reading comprehension skills as they answer questions about the key details in a read-aloud text. Use as a stand-alone or pre-lesson for the Questions for Comprehension lesson plan.

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