Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words "said," "sad," and "went.

Get to know your readers with this practice prompt, to help kids learn the importance of writing for an audience.

The incredible Kid Wizard and Ninjastar are about to face off with their arch-nemesis! But how will things end?

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

Learn how to write dialogue with this writing activity that, in the long run, will help you better understand literature.

Calculating caterpillars and capricious crayfish! Your child will be laughing as he learns some new vocabulary and practices using alliteration.

Get your little storyteller in gear for creative writing! This story starter worksheet is perfect for honing your child's writing skills.

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

What if you discovered a secret passageway in your house! Write a story to tell what you'd do next in that situation.

If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

Challenge your kids to translate LOL into an academic sentence! Give your students extra practice rewriting online comments so that they fit the academic setting.

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

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.

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

Put a little imagination into writing practice! Kids will imagine up a new animal species and write a descriptive paragraph about it.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

What's going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child's creativity to be complete!

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

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

Peter Pan says what? Your child adds to the famous story with his imagination in this fun writing exercise.

Get your fifth grader to polish his writing chops with this write-it-yourself comic.

Does your child need a head start in creative writing? Give her this story starter worksheet, and she'll help Marnie figure out how to bake her muffins!

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

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

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.