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

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.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

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.

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

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

Untangle the strands of a story with this spider web graphic organizer!

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

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

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!

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

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

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.

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

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.

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

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

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

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

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.