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.

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

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and pick out the highs and lows of the year. We all go through them, and what is important is that we learn from them.

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.

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!

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

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

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

A.J. and C.K. are at it again! If your child is into comics or graphic novels, they're sure to love this do-it-yourself comic adventure.

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

It seems that Christmas magic has gone haywire! Be creative and write a story to explain this silly holiday scene.

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

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

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

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.

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

Imagine if there were a ski resort on the moon! Use those creative writing skills to make up a story that goes with this silly picture.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

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

Can your fourth grader write their own comic strip? Let them give it a shot, with this fill-in-the-blank adventure featuring A.J. and C.K.

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

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

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.

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!