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5th Grade Common Core Creative Writing Worksheets

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe their dream summer vacation.

Summer Writing Prompt #1: My Dream Vacation

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

What is a Narrative? Kinds of Narratives

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

Halloween Creative Writing Prompt #1: The Haunted House

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

Complete the Table: Narrative Elements

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

Halloween Creative Writing Prompt #2: The Trick-or-Treat Tale

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

The Raven

Learners practice their creative writing with this fun, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a costume with a superpower twist!

Halloween Creative Writing Prompt #3: The Enchanting Costume

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this fun, summer-themed writing prompt about finding something mysterious buried in the sand!

Summer Creative Writing Prompt #1: Secrets of the Sand

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

Develop a Story

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a walk in the woods that takes an unexpected turn when the trail disappears beneath the snow!

Winter Creative Writing Prompt #1: A Walk in the Woods

After reading <em>Esperanza Rising</em>, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Different Point of View

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Hyperbole in Poetry

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

Summer Creative Writing Prompt #2: The Campfire Commotion

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Journal Writing Task Cards #1

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

On Demand Writing: Picture Prompt

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

Imagery: Show, Don't Tell

Children learn about three songs that inspired and gave hope to the people who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad, then answer questions about what they have learned.

Underground Railroad: Songs of Freedom

In this creative writing prompt, students will imagine what it would be like to turn into a werewolf at the stroke of midnight every Halloween.&nbsp;

Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Werewolf

What if you had $1,000, but you couldn't spend it on yourself? Flex your creativity and goodwill thinking with this writing prompt.

Money Writing Prompt

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

Writing Prompt: Mystery

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Metaphors in Poetry

Monster footprints in a dark forest sets the scene for a super scary story! This picture prompt will help your child practice creative writing.

Tell a Tale!

What if you could make up your own animal species? Your child will have fun as she uses her imagination to hone her writing skills.

Creative Writing: Animal Antics

Write your own Declaration of Independence in this creative writing worksheet!

Write Your Own Declaration!

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

Use this template to plan and create an original comic.

Comic Strip Maker

After reading Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel <em>Esperanza Rising</em>, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Inspired by a True Story

If you're stuck at home this summer, try these fun pretend postcards instead for an exercise in creative writing!

Postcard Writing

A soccer ball flies toward the goalie, but what happens next? Let your budding writer create his own story, using this picture prompt as a starting point.

Picture Writing Prompt

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5th Grade Common Core Creative Writing Worksheets

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