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Preschool - 1st Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Resources

These sentence starters support basic writing skills and organizing thoughts for kindergarteners. Telling stories not only builds creativity, it helps kids learn about communication.

Story Starters for New Writers

Use this fun worksheet to create a five senses riddle to stump your friends! Students will get practice using sensory words to describe objects with the help of a word bank.

Five Senses Observation

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

What Will Happen Next?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Five Senses Mystery Bags.

Glossary: Five Senses Mystery Bags

Use this fun worksheet to practice creating a five senses riddle to stump your friends!

Five Senses Riddle

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Story Planning Worksheet

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Five Senses Mystery Bags.

Vocabulary Cards: Five Senses Mystery Bags

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Design a Diorama!

Practice writing sensory poetry using this fun template that will get students thinking, drawing, and writing.

Wake Up Senses

Use this fun bee themed worksheet to help your students write sensory list poems all about bees!

Bee Poems

Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this worksheet.

Fill in the Sensory Details

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

Formative Assessment: Speaking and Listening

Help your learner understand the difference between yesterday, today and tomorrow with a fun and simple journal.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Make That Dialogue Pop!

Transition words help us to link together sentences to form a whole paragraph! Help your little writer get to know key words with some cut-out flash cards.

Transition Words

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

Glossary: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

A lot can happen in a day! Transition words can help us organize our thoughts into a sequential story. Use this activity to teach students the importance of transition words as they tell about their day...all with the help of sentence frames!

Tell About the Transitions

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Dialogue & Drama

Practice writing sensory poetry using this helpful template that focuses on a place and setting.

My Describing Poem

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!

Write that Title

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Three Little Pigs Puppets

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

Vocabulary Cards: Buzzing Sensory Poems

Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this fun worksheet.

Use Your Senses

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Vocabulary Cards: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

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.

Story Board

There are many ways to spice up personal narratives. From dialogue to pictures, this worksheet teaches students the benefit of adding descriptive elements to their writing.

Show All About It

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.

Talk About the Party

Kids will figure out the definitions of these sensory words by using context clues to infer the meaning.

Sensory Words Quiz

What adventures can a reindeer, candy cane, and a snowman embark on? Let’s find out! In this writing lesson, students will write a Christmas-themed narrative incorporating characters, setting, problem, and solution. 


Christmas Adventure Writing

Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

Character Detectives

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