6th Grade Creative Writing Resources

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt! 

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a walk in the woods that takes an unexpected turn when the trail disappears beneath the snow!

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a suspicious snowball that zips by while on a walk down the snowy city sidewalk!

In this sixth-grade worksheet, students hone their narrative writing skills by practicing identifying and removing irrelevant details to strengthen a story.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about an unexpected walk down memory lane while stuck inside on a snowy weekend.

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Inspire learners' creativity with this seasonal writing prompt about finding the perfect gift for a friend!

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun and seasonal writing prompt about a mysterious letter!

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Get learners' creative juices flowing with this fun leap year-inspired writing prompt!

Inspire learners' creativity with this fun and seasonal writing prompt about a peculiar engraving!

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a startling find in the picnic cooler!

Use this fun creative writing prompt and accompanying rubric to inspire budding authors and help them hone their narrative writing skills.