5th grade Brainstorming Printable Worksheets

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

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

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Organizing your thoughts is an essential part of the writing process. It's easy--and fun--with this brainstorming worksheet.

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of the Pilgrims and report back to the Queen herself about life in the New England colonies.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

In this creative writing prompt, children recall a past Thanksgiving and describe what made it so memorable.

Children are invited to plan their ideal Thanksgiving in this creative writing exercise.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

Research your favorite author, then map out biographical details on an idea web.