Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Story Hooks.

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Give your child a fun way to polish his writing skills with a Halloween story starter. Hell get to make up his own scary story and get a creativity boost.

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!

Practice opinion writing using a real life situation with this prompt that focuses on changes in the classroom.

Help your students to show their understanding of operations within word problems.

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

Take a bite into the supernatural with this scary writing prompt.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Story Hooks.

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

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

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

Encourage students to put their thoughts into words on the paper with these writing prompts. Invite your students to respond to these prompts with a well-written opinion paragraph.

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.

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

Challenge students to come up with arguments and counter-arguments for a controversial topic, whether they agree or not.

This joker is walking right into bad luck, literally! You get to decide what happens to him after he walks under this ladder. Be as creative as you want.

All writing needs support! Give your young writer some structure with this supporting statements activity.

What if Cinderella's sisters stole her magical carriage and ended up in the desert! It's up to your creative writer to decide what happens next.

This goofy magician is about to perform a magic trick! Let your aspiring wizard determine what trick the magician is about to perform.

Let your fourth grader dive into this fill-in-the-blank comic adventure of A.J. and C.K.

In this activity, students will organize their thoughts, then write their own definitions for two common classroom objects. When they finish, have them share their work aloud so students can see the variations around the room!

Here's a writing prompt to put a jig in your step, and pep in your writing practice!

Nouns are an important part of every sentence! What would happen if we tried to write a story with no nouns?

Help students create their own division word problems!

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

Mix fun with zen in this haiku activity! Students will practice writing about everyday objects in the style of haiku.

If you were a famous explorer, what would you want to discover? You'll need your imagination for this adventurous writing prompt!

This elf snowball fight writing prompt is perfect for Christmas. The elves and reindeer have gotten into an epic elf snowball fight in this creative prompt.

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