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Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

How to Outline a Short Story

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

My Personal Expressions: Write a Short Story

What is going on in this picture? Have fun with this picture writing prompt, a great way to boost creativity in your young writer.

Short Writing Prompt

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order Words

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 1

Sentence Makeover Part 2

Children follow the prompts to plan and draft a short opinion piece in this engaging three-page template guide.

In My Opinion: Writing Guide

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Polishing Practice 2

Polishing Practice 1

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Fall Resolution Leaves

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts

Children learn editor's marks for a variety of grammar, formatting, spelling, and punctuation errors, then practice using them to read and edit a short paragraph.

Editing and Revision Practice

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Editing: Compliments, Suggestions, and Corrections

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners&nbsp;will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Seasons Writing Prompt

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

Opinion Writing: My Favorite Food

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

Stand Up Like Malala

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

All About Wangari Maathai

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Storyboard Pre-Write

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Powerful Prepositions

Give your students the opportunity to turn boring titles into interesting titles!

Turning Titles Around

This worksheet will expose your learners to important poets in the African American community.

Who Am I? African American Poets

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Colonial America: Jamestown

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

Get Focused! Writing Topic Sentences

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

Identify the Main Idea

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