Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Take a stab at haiku poetry with this free-form haiku writing worksheet. All you need is imagination and a pen!

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

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.

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Beginning readers can practice their comprehension skills by using this graphic organizer to diagram the plot of a story or book.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

What is this tennis player doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Use this graphic organizer to help kids differentiate between fact or opinion.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

Help your child get started on his storytelling skills with this worksheet about characters!

Does your child need a head start in creative writing? Give her this story starter worksheet, and she'll help Marnie figure out how to bake her muffins!

Why is this dinosaur holding an egg? Help your second grader get creative with his reading and writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Use this fun resource to get your child creatively writing.