By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

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.

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!

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

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

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

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

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.

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

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

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

This critical thinking worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, challenges kids to plain their own campaign tour!

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

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

What would happen if Baba Yaga had a hoarding intervention? Get to know a famous and eerie Russian folktale with this creative writing exercise.

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

You've never heard a ghost story like The Phantom Knight of Vandal Camp! Discover the scares, if you dare, behind this tale before writing the ending.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

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

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.

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

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

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

Got an aspiring comic book writer on your hands? Spark your fourth grader's creativity with this comic strip-writing adventure!