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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

What if the monster under the bed was just lonely and shy? Have some spooky fun with this writing prompt to challenge your point of view.

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.

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

Flex those creative writing skills by starting a story in a few different ways! Use the picture as a prompt, and use each technique to start a story.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

All writing needs support! Give your young writer some structure with this supporting statements activity.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

In Greek mythology, it was believed that trees had souls called dryads. These female spirits would watch over the forest.

Does your creative writer love to have a spooky good time with his stories? This ghostly worksheet will get him in the spirit!

Practice opinion writing using a real life situation with this prompt that focuses on changes in the classroom.

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.

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

Challenge students to come up with arguments and counter-arguments for a controversial topic, whether they agree or not.

Encourage your child to decode a favorite quote in this reading comprehension sheet.

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

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

What if Pinocchio were a girl instead of a boy? How would the story be different?

Play the role of author, and rewrite a famous fairy tale! What if the Cinderella story was told from the perspective of the stepsisters?

Read up on the various number superstitions around the world and why certain numbers are so lucky or unlucky for certain cultures!

Give your students the questions and organizer to evaluate creative work. Use this worksheet to guide student evaluations of their partner’s creative products.

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

Let your fourth grader dive into this fill-in-the-blank comic adventure of A.J. and C.K.