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!

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

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

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

Practice basic capitalization rules with this worksheet which asks: to capitalize or not capitalize?

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Use this resource to give your student practice with editing for complete sentences.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

Give your students the opportunity to put a friendly letter together!

Once students have completed a first draft of narrative writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, compelling details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

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.

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

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

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.