Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

Easter decorations are full of pastels, pinks and yellows! But why do those colors represent Easter? Help your child write a response to this question.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Familiarize with the nonfiction genre by thinking about all the nonfiction you read or see each day.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

Children are invited to reflect on the ways adversity can lead to gratitude in this thoughtful writing prompt.

Let your fourth grader dive into this fill-in-the-blank comic adventure of A.J. and C.K.

Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Nobody knows much about the Secretive Celestial. It's up to your young author to decide who this superhero is. Let the imagination run wild.

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

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

Children write about how they would care for a pet turkey in this creative writing exercise.

Did you ever get bad luck from seeing a black cat cross your path? Maybe the superstition is not as scary as you thought!

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

What if Pinocchio were a girl instead of a boy? How would the story be different?

This language arts assessment will provide insight into your students' ability to write an animal report.

Mix fun with zen in this haiku activity! Students will practice writing about everyday objects in the style of haiku.

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

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

Children reflect on the significance of this holiday with this thoughtful writing prompt.

Seen Sasquatch? Here's a list of ten ways to know, but just like Sasquatch, some of the items are missing. Fill in the rest using your awesome creativity!

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.

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.

What would happen if Megalodon and the Loch Ness Monster went head-to-head? Your budding writer can have fun narrating this epic battle!

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

Challenge students to come up with arguments and counter-arguments for a controversial topic, whether they agree or not.