Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

If your child has ever fantasized about being a pro athlete, he'll enjoy this writing assignment! Characters have stats and stories have supporting details.

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

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

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

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

What if Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman were stranded on a desert island together? It's up to your creative writer to tell the rest of the story.

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

Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?

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

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

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.

Show your fifth-grader it's possible to make your own comic rather than just read them. He'll work on creative writing while he's at it!

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

Did you know that in Australia, December 25th is actually during the summer? Imagine if we celebrated Christmas during the summer!

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

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

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

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

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!

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

Have you ever knocked on wood to counter-jinx yourself? Now it's time to find out the truth behind this well-known superstition!

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

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

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

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.