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2nd - 4th Grade Common Core Prewriting Worksheets : Page 5

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Strategies for Crafting Your Title

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Writing a Tall Tale

Get your little storyteller in gear for creative writing! This story starter worksheet is perfect for honing your child's writing skills.

Complete the Story: Baseball Tryouts

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

Pet Dragon

What if you discovered a secret passageway in your house! Write a story to tell what you'd do next in that situation.

Secret Door Writing Prompt

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

Forming an Opinion: Halloween Costumes

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Can you name what trick this skateboarder is doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Skateboarding Sentences!

Have a blast completing this mouth-watering writing exercise by writing down the steps you would take to create the perfect ice cream sundae.

Creative Writing for Kids: Make a Sundae

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Draw and Write

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

Write a Bushido Backstory

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

Naming Narratives and Nonfiction

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

Something Difficult

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Captain Kraken

Children will enjoy dreaming up their dream Valentine&#39;s Day gift in this simple drawing and writing prompt.

My Dream Gift: Valentine's Day

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

On a Space Mission

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Tall Tales for Kids

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

Make It Realistic!

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

Adding Extended Dialogue

Do you remember your favorite Christmas experience? Get your little writer to practice her creative writing with a fun prompt.

Christmas Writing Activity

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Dragon Writing Prompt

We all know the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs, but no one has heard it from the wolf's point of view!

Rewrite the Story

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

Christmas Creative Writing Prompt

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Creative Writing for Kids: Restaurant Owner

Is that a pirate on a dinosaur's back? Yes. Why? Let your child decide (and slip in great composition skills practice)!

Pirate Writing

What story can your second grader come up with for this winter scene? They also get some coloring time to go along with the story they write.

Ice Skating Story Starter

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

Christmas Creative Writing

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

Winter Writing Prompt

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.

It's a Flying Baby?

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

Awful Epoxy Story Starter

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