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!

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

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

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

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

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!

Follow Chuck on vacation by looking at the pictures he took! What is he doing in each picture? Use your imagination and creativity to write captions for each.

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.

What do want to be when you grow up? This worksheet gives kids the space to represent their answer to that question through drawing and writing.

What is this funny dinosaur doing? Help your second grader rearrange the jumbled words, and add in the missing words to make a complete sentence.

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

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

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

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.

Roarrr!! What is this T-Rex trying to say? Help your second grader build his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

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

Why is this dinosaur holding an egg? Help your second grader get creative with his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

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.

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

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

What is the boy in his swim trunks asking the boy in his rain coat? Use your imagination and write down questions the two boys may be asking each other!

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

Super Floyd and Officer Ice Cream are off on an adventure! Help the dynamic duo save the day by filling in their speech bubbles.

Honor Dad this Father's Day by turning him into a veritable superhero! This printable is guaranteed to pack in the giggles (and writing practice, too).

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

What is this tractor trying to build? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

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.

Mmmm! Can you smell the Christmas cookies in the oven? Warm up your child's writing skills with this Christmas cookies writing prompt.

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.

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.