Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

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!

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

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

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

Young editors will read "Josie's Garden" and add commas, periods, and quotation marks. Practice with punctuation perfectly in this punctuation worksheet.

Oh no! Cuz-Cuz is in Roly's food! It's up to your child to figure out why by adding text to the characters' speech bubbles.

Get to know your readers with this practice prompt, to help kids learn the importance of writing for an audience.

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

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

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

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

Transition words are essential to good writing! They provide structure and organization by connecting ideas and sentences. Help your students become familiar with common transition words with this fun word search!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

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

Write a summer-themed dialogue for this mother and son, then color in the pictures.

Students will use a comic book format to organize conversations within their personal narratives and practice the writing process.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Dialogue.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

What was a time in your life when you were surprised? Use this prompt and worksheet to help students plan a personal narrative on this topic.

If your students need extra practice structuring a personal narrative, use this prompt to write a story about something that was difficult for them.