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3rd - 8th Grade Common Core Prewriting Resources : Page 5

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

Retell the Story

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Strategies for Crafting Your Title

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

Complete the Story: Baseball Tryouts

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

Pet Dragon

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

Secret Door Writing Prompt

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

Forming an Opinion: Halloween Costumes

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

One Thing I Love

Have a blast completing this mouth-watering writing exercise by writing down the steps you would take to create the perfect ice cream sundae.

Creative Writing for Kids: Make a Sundae

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

Storyboard Pre-Write

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.

Write a Bushido Backstory

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

Naming Narratives and Nonfiction

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

Something Difficult

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.

Captain Kraken

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.

On a Space Mission

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

Make It Realistic!

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

Vampire Character Writing: Supporting Details

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

Christmas Writing Activity

Research your favorite author, then map out biographical details on an idea web.

Mapping Information About Your Favorite Author

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Dragon Writing Prompt

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

Rewrite the Story

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

Christmas Creative Writing Prompt

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!

Creative Writing for Kids: Restaurant Owner

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

Christmas Creative Writing

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

Winter Writing Prompt

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.

It's a Flying Baby?

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

Awful Epoxy Story Starter

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.

Cat Comics: Joy Ride!

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

Halloween Writing Prompt

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

Yeti Writing Prompt

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