Genre Writing Printable Worksheets

From nature hunts and rock painting to recycled art and poetry writing, these activities combine scientific exploration with arts and crafts projects.

What is your favorite animal? Answer this question and many more in this creative writing worksheet in which first graders can practice writing sentences.

Let your students work up an appetite for writing with this opinion writing prompt. First students will consider their favorite food while they fill in the structured pre-writing planner, then they can use the second page to write their opinion essay.

Students take emojis from text to paper, using them as prompts for identifying and reflecting upon their own feelings.

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

Kindergarteners will get handwriting practice and love sharing about their lives as they write a report all about them using this colorful worksheet!

Challenge your writer's critical thinking skills by asking him to pen a persuasive narrative in favor of or against an issue.

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

Does your little one know the different continents? Help her cut and paste the continent names onto this colorful world map.

There's no better way to get your kid thinking about the weather than by having him write about it. Kids write a sentence about the weather in each picture.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

This paragraph writing worksheet gets your child back to the basics of writing. In this paragraph writing worksheet, kids will write using a graphic organizer.

In this creative activity, students design and make a case for their own proposed emoji.

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Practice creative writing with some simple sentence prompts. Fill in the holes to describe what it's like to swim in the ocean.

Ever wonder how the sun helps plants grow? Here is an easy way to explain the process of photosynthesis to your first grader.

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

In this activity, students will consider the key features of a narrative, such as plot, setting, rising action, and characters.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have your child select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Have fun with functional and informative transitions with this cooking-themed activity. Students will solidify their knowledge of important transition words to improve their sequencing and informational writing skills.

It's raining, it's pouring... This cute and colorful printable gets her thinking about her favorite rainy day activities.

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

Help your child learn to navigate narrative poetry, then write their own poem, in this super-fun narrative poetry worksheet.

Your student will research and identify the animal and plant life that live near the sea, using both her own knowledge and the help of the Internet.

This worksheet explains to kids what an acrostic poem is, and then challenges them to write an acrostic poem that describes each word provided.