Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Second graders love telling stories! Help them take one small moment and write across many pages using this helpful planning organizer.

Second graders love telling stories! Help them share their feelings when writing about one small moment using this helpful planning worksheet.

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Assess their growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric.

How did this Minotaur end up running track at the Olympics? Have some fun with this silly writing prompt, and use your imagination to tell a story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

It seems that Christmas magic has gone haywire! Be creative and write a story to explain this silly holiday scene.

If you were a famous explorer, what would you want to discover? You'll need your imagination for this adventurous writing prompt!

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

What is this silly dog doing up in outer space? Challenge your child to write a story to go along with the picture in this coloring page!

This deer is a disaster, but how will his story end? Give your child a head start writing a creative story with this fun coloring page!

All we know is that this courageous knight in shining armor is protecting this beautiful princess, and it's up to your scribe to finish the story!

Tell a story worthy of Rudolph and Frosty with this creative holiday prompt!

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

There's more than one way to hook a reader! Help your students reinforce their understanding of captivating story starters with this Goldilocks-themed matching worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Does your 3rd grader have a case of writer's block? Hand him this creative writing worksheet featuring a knight and a dragon doing battle.

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

Grab your colored pencils and your crayons and get your creative juices flowing with a story starter worksheet that lets you add the illustrations!

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.

Help your child stretch her imagination to come up with a story starring a cast of underwater characters.

Help students practice their handwriting while rewriting these sentences as neatly as possible. Students will also get to practice counting the number of words in each sentence.

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will consider past birthdays to see if they can come up with a small moment to focus their narratives on.

Dialogue adds pizazz to personal narratives and helps to bring the story to life! Give your young writers a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to a personal narrative with this writing prompt activity.

What ten essentials would you pack in case of an emergency? Help kids think about disaster preparedness from zombie apocalypse point of view!

What if Cinderella's sisters stole her magical carriage and ended up in the desert! It's up to your creative writer to decide what happens next.

This elf snowball fight writing prompt is perfect for Christmas. The elves and reindeer have gotten into an epic elf snowball fight in this creative prompt.

This cuddly bear has a story to tell! Give your child a head start writing his own story with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest.