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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.

Writing Ideas

Kids brainstorm personal narrative topics with this printable.

Small Moments vs. Big Topics

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Linking Up Ideas

Spark your student's imagination with this fun and creative writing prompt which focuses on summer, and get more summer writing ideas.

Summer Writing Ideas

Ready, set, brainstorm! Help your students prepare to write how-to books by generating ideas about topics that they know a lot about.

How to...Brainstorm!

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

Main ideas and Details

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Linking Ideas with Transition Words

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will generate ideas about big events they've experienced and then pick one to focus their narratives on.

Story Brainstorm: Big Events

Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.

In Search of the Main Idea

Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.

Main Ideas, Please!

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

Main Ideas and Details

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Frame Your Essay

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

Your New Pet Dragon: Organizing Paragraphs 

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details in the context of sentences and paragraphs. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Power Reading lesson.

Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Informational Writing: Linking Ideas

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

Great Writing Starts with Golden Ideas

Persuasive writing is at hand! With authentic and relevant school-related topics, students will encounter and use organizational structures found in persuasive essays. 

Strategic School Persuasion

Everyone has ideas about what they'd do if they could go back in time. See what your kid's ideas are and give her some creative writing practice in the process!

Go Back in Time

In order to write informational texts, students need to research their topics. Use this handy notetaker to help students record and think through the new information they are gathering.

Nonfiction Notetaker

Help students learn how to read passages with multiple main ideas and differentiate between main ideas and supporting details by creating a graphic organizer with proof from the text.

Power Reading

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.

Storyboard

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

Finish the Mystery

Budding essayists will practice organizing their ideas using the template and prompts on this worksheet.

George Washington: You Tell the Story

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

Describe in Pairs

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by selecting interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will brainstorm about past adventures they've had and then choose one moment to focus their narratives on.

Story Brainstorm: Adventures

Help your kindergarten students think about key ideas they’ve learned about penguins using this helpful worksheet.

Interesting Penguins

Help students organize their ideas and structure their written responses with the PEEL strategy!

PEEL Writing Strategy Handout

This lesson will inspire your students to focus on the people, pets, things, places, and ideas that mean the most to them! Your students will practice writing in this heartfelt lesson.

Writing From the Heart

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

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