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2nd - 5th Grade Common Core Prewriting Worksheets : Page 3

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

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Writing Prompt: Change

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

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

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Writing with Unexpected Details

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Thinking About Characters: Literary Response

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

Writing in Response to Reading

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

Outline a Fictional Character

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

Realistic Fiction Writing Assessment

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

What's My Order?

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Bio Poem Template

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

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

Write a Haiku

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Ingredients of a Story

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

Writing Narratives: Plan the Setting

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

Personal Stories in Informational Writing

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

Vampire Character Writing: Supporting Details

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

Ice Cream Graphic Organizer

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer

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

Create A Superhero

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

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

Realistic Writing

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

Sporty Sentence Making

Ready for sentence building liftoff! This worksheet will help your second grader build his creative writing skills and practice forming sentences.

Make a Space Shuttle Sentence

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

A Paragraph Puzzle: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Organizing your thoughts is an essential part of the writing process. It's easy--and fun--with this brainstorming worksheet.

Brainstorming Techniques

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Finish the Story: The Forest

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Christmas Writing Prompt

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

Identify the Main Idea

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

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