When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

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!

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.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

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.

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

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.

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

What if Dorothy's house had landed in New York City instead of Oz?

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

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.

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

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

Where could this map lead to? Give your beginning writer a fun way to exercise his creativity.

Got a video game enthusiast on your hands? Give them a fun alternative with this creative writing sheet, where they'll get to make up their own video game!

This joker is walking right into bad luck, literally! You get to decide what happens to him after he walks under this ladder. Be as creative as you want.

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

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

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

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

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

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.

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

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.

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!