Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

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!

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.

Young editors will read "Josie's Garden" and add commas, periods, and quotation marks. Practice with punctuation perfectly in this punctuation worksheet.

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.

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

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Transition words are essential to good writing! They provide structure and organization by connecting ideas and sentences. Help your students become familiar with common transition words with this fun word search!

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

Help your child learn about sensory language as they describe an experience.

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

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

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!

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.

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

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

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

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!

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Students will use a comic book format to organize conversations within their personal narratives and practice the writing process.

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.