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This story starter featuring an alien butterfly catcher will surely put your little one in a silly mood! Add color to the picture and write a story about it.

Story Starter: Alien Butterfly Catcher

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

How to Outline a Short Story

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

My Personal Expressions: Write a Short Story

What is going on in this picture? Have fun with this picture writing prompt, a great way to boost creativity in your young writer.

Short Writing Prompt

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order Words

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 1

Sentence Makeover Part 2

Children will use their imaginations to write and illustrate a short nonfiction essay in this creative writing exercise.

Write a Story: Magic Land

Your child can write a short story about the family dog (or make one up) while perfecting his penmanship!

Write and Draw Story Time: Dog

Children follow the prompts to plan and draft a short opinion piece in this engaging three-page template guide.

In My Opinion: Writing Guide

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Polishing Practice 2

Polishing Practice 1

Here are four examples of mineral resources for kids to think about, plus a short explanation of what a mineral resource is.

Example of Mineral Resources

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

Fall Resolution Leaves

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Best Friends Forever Literary Response

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts

Children learn editor's marks for a variety of grammar, formatting, spelling, and punctuation errors, then practice using them to read and edit a short paragraph.

Editing and Revision Practice

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Editing: Compliments, Suggestions, and Corrections

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners&nbsp;will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Seasons Writing Prompt

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

Opinion Writing: My Favorite Food

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

Stand Up Like Malala

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

All About Wangari Maathai

How do people celebrate Diwali? Help your little one learn about a traditional Hindu holiday celebrated in the fall.

Diwali Traditions

Your child can grab her pencils, both plain and colored, and get to work flexing her literary muscles by writing an illustrating a fairy tale.

Fairy Tale Writing Prompt

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Storyboard Pre-Write

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

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