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Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

Using "It" and "They" in the Third Person Narrative

Second graders love telling stories! Help them plan their own small moment stories using this handy graphic organizer.

Narrative Story Organizer

Children write about their favorite summer memory with this writing template, using their five senses to describe what happened.

Creative Writing: Summer Memories

Your students will flesh out their personal narratives using this brainstorming guide.

Second Grade Details Brainstorming

Second graders love telling stories! Help them take one small moment and write across many pages using this helpful planning organizer.

Writing Across Pages

Second graders love telling stories! Help them share their feelings when writing about one small moment using this helpful planning worksheet.

I Felt So...

What would you wish for if you had the chance? This writing prompt is a fun way to get beginning writers using their creativity.

Three Wishes

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Can You Picture It?: A Writing Activity

What's going on here? Your child can decide what's happening and where these characters might go next, using this writing prompt as a start.

Writing Inspiration for Kids

Mapping out your thoughts before you start writing is key to a well-organized essay. Your students will map their first draft of a personal narrative using this graphic organizer.

Personal Narrative Prewriting

Where is this rocket ship going? Where did it come from? Your child can create a story and get a step-up by using the word bank as a place to start!

Space Writing Scene

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Personal Narrative Problem & Solution

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Hone writing skills by identifying opinion vs fact.

Opinion vs Fact

Give your child an imagination vacation with this fun creative writing prompt, where she'll write about traveling to a far away land.

Creative Writing: Travel the World

Ever wonder what happens at the North Pole on Christmas Eve? Exercise your child's imagination with a fun writing prompt, all about Santa's workshop!

Christmas Descriptive Writing

Young writers get some hands-on character development practice with this epic writing prompt.

Creative Writing Prompt: Amazing Human

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Different Ways to Start a Story

Does your child have a wild imagination? Give them a fun outlet with a creative writing prompt! This one asks them to imagine a hidden door they've discovered.

Creative Writing: Hidden Door

Get ready to ring in the New Year with a fun writing prompt, all about New Year's resolutions. This is a good way to build paragraph-writing skills.

New Year's Writing Prompt

Exaggeration in storytelling is no big secret. Help your child write a story about himself with this exercise in telling tall tales.

Tell a Tall Tale

This worksheet is a fun-filled way to write dialogue about a familiar party staple: balloons. Your 3rd grader creates the conversations between family members.

Writing Dialogue

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

Brainzy Presents: The Amazing Adventures of Floyd and Roly

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.

Finding the Details and Asking for Answers

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

The Zoo Stories: Imagining Animals at Night

This winter-themed lesson plan, which incorporates the book *Tree of Cranes* by Allen Say, teaches students about Japanese traditions and customs. They will review the basic elements of a narrative story, and then write their own narratives about a special event or moment in their life.

Tree of Cranes

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Write a Cliffhanger

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Storyteller

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Vacation Memory Book

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

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