Using fun materials can make following along as an adult reads much more exciting. In this activity, students will point out each word with different items to practice one-to-one correspondence.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help students practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story of a birthday.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

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

What do you do at school every day? Help your child sort out her school routine and write it down, from beginning, to middle to end!

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

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

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

Find out the names of some famous people that share your birthday month, then check and see what qualities you share!

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Let's get silly! Use this worksheet to help your students practice counting words and improving their handwriting while writing out these silly sentences.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

An acrostic poem is one of the most easy and rewarding ways for younger children to write poetry. Fill in the blanks to spell out "family".

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

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.

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

A strong hook will grab a reader's attention and pull them into your story! This organizer will help young writers try out different ideas and decide on the strongest hook for their personal narrative.

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and pick out the highs and lows of the year. We all go through them, and what is important is that we learn from them.

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.