What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

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

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

What makes a story or picture interesting? Details! Young writers and illustrators can use this worksheet to practice making their own writing even better!

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

Encourage students to share their writing with classmates and receive feedback to improve their writing with this peer publishing worksheet.

"The witch was on her broom with her..." Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader's wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

This spooky fortune teller needs some help entertaining his turtle visitor with a creative story!

Beginning writers can use this revision worksheet to improve their own writing. This worksheet reminds writers to use uppercase letters, proper punctuation, and descriptive details or illustrations.

Up, up, and away! Kids love to explore new places! Use this awesome travel writing template as a launching point for your students to hone their writing and editing skills.

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Looks like Santa Claus is in trouble! It's up to your creative writer to unravel the mystery behind this mysterious letter.

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Help students reflect on revisions to their work and improve their writing with this worksheet.

If your students need extra practice structuring a personal narrative, use this prompt to write a story about something that was difficult for them.

Oh, no, our prince has a dragon hot on his heels...really, really hot! Let your 1st grade author decide what happens next.

A good introduction draws a reader into the story and makes them want to learn more. Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing strong introductions using this helpful worksheet.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

What if the monster under the bed was just lonely and shy? Have some spooky fun with this writing prompt to challenge your point of view.

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.