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.

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.

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

What if Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman were stranded on a desert island together? It's up to your creative writer to tell the rest of the story.

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

Put a little imagination into writing practice! Kids will imagine up a new animal species and write a descriptive paragraph about it.

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.

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

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

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

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!

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

Have you ever knocked on wood to counter-jinx yourself? Now it's time to find out the truth behind this well-known superstition!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.