Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Prewriting Resources

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

This worksheet template guides children through the pre-writing and writing process, helping them to organize their thoughts before they write.

Boost your child's writing skills with these simple sentence starters for beginning writers!

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

With this worksheet, your student can rearrange these nouns and verbs into complete sentences, building creative writing skills.

Flex those writing skills with these clever prompts. Practice stretching sentences by adding details of who, what, when and where!

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

How far can you stretch these sentences? Give your young writer a creativity boost with this clever sentence practice sheet.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Help your kindergarten students learn about sequencing and science as they learn about the five stages in a ladybugs life.

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

A magical pirate scene serves as a prompt for young writers in this creative writing worksheet.

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

It's time to brainstorm! Use this worksheet to help budding writers generate a list of ideas and topics for future stories, as well as give students a chance to practice their letter and word spacing.

This friendly sea turtle is trying to say something, can you help him? Give your second grader practice writing sentences with this worksheet.

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

What is the boy in his swim trunks asking the boy in his rain coat? Use your imagination and write down questions the two boys may be asking each other!

What do want to be when you grow up? This worksheet gives kids the space to represent their answer to that question through drawing and writing.

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.