Present your dad with this do-it-yourself book of Father's Day recipes!

Put a little imagination into writing practice! Kids will imagine up a new animal species and write a descriptive paragraph about it.

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

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

Paraphrasing is all about putting other people's writing in your own words. Your child will read about Annie Oakley as he paraphrases this passage.

Show your fifth-grader it's possible to make your own comic rather than just read them. He'll work on creative writing while he's at it!

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

Calculating caterpillars and capricious crayfish! Your child will be laughing as he learns some new vocabulary and practices using alliteration.

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

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

Have you ever knocked on wood to counter-jinx yourself? Now it's time to find out the truth behind this well-known superstition!

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

Help students create their own division word problems!

If your students need extra practice structuring a personal narrative, use this prompt to write a story about something that was difficult for them.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

What if the monster under the bed was just lonely and shy? Have some spooky fun with this writing prompt to challenge your point of view.

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

What would happen if Baba Yaga had a hoarding intervention? Get to know a famous and eerie Russian folktale with this creative writing exercise.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

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

In Greek mythology, it was believed that trees had souls called dryads. These female spirits would watch over the forest.

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