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

Enjoy a sweet writing response page all about Valentine's Day. Kids will get to reflect on an important person in their life.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Imagine if the classic Christmas story, The Nutcracker, was actually a Halloween story! How would that change the way the story was told?

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

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.

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

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

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

How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

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.

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

Give your child a fun way to polish his writing skills with a Halloween story starter. Hell get to make up his own scary story and get a creativity boost.

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.

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

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.

A.J. and C.K. are at it again! If your child is into comics or graphic novels, they're sure to love this do-it-yourself comic adventure.

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.

It seems that Christmas magic has gone haywire! Be creative and write a story to explain this silly holiday scene.

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

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

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.

Can your fourth grader write their own comic strip? Let them give it a shot, with this fill-in-the-blank adventure featuring A.J. and C.K.