The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

It's never too early to start planning for your future! After imagining what their lives will be like at age 25, students write persuasive letters to their parents asking for their support.

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

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.

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

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.

Follow Chuck on vacation by looking at the pictures he took! What is he doing in each picture? Use your imagination and creativity to write captions for each.

Give your students practice using their narrative writing skills with this fun worksheet.

Practice retelling familiar stories using this detail-oriented worksheet!

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

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

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

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.

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

Give your students the opportunity to turn boring titles into interesting titles!

Ready for sentence building liftoff! This worksheet will help your second grader build his creative writing skills and practice forming sentences.

What is this tractor trying to build? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

Ask your kindergarten students to help Sam get ready in the right order. In this activity, students will learn about sequencing.

What is this tennis player doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Help your child get started on his storytelling skills with this worksheet about characters!

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

What is this funny dinosaur doing? Help your second grader rearrange the jumbled words, and add in the missing words to make a complete sentence.

Beginning readers can practice their comprehension skills by using this graphic organizer to diagram the plot of a story or book.

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Learners will sharpen their creative writing skills as they brainstorm hilarious titles of their own using this worksheet.

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.