In this story starter:  the cat and the fishbowl learning exercise, 1st graders look at the picture and write a story about it on the lines below.

Teach your class the basics of narrative writing! The resource first describes the Common Core standard for narrative writing in-depth, and then moves into how to apply the standard. Show your class the example essay and quiz them...

An excerpt from Willa Cather's O Pioneer's! provides learners with practice in finding the main idea and supporting details in a narrative. As readers record the bleak details on the included graphic organizer, they can conclude that...

Make The Taming of the Shrew modern and relevant with this outline. Small groups can choose from a list of suggested scenes and update with modern language and settings before acting them out. Great questions refine writing and...

What does a morally courageous person look like? Discuss principles, peer pressure, and solving problems without violence in a worksheet about moral courage, and the ways you can be a hero to the people around you.

In this creative writing worksheet, students use the prompt to write a creative short story. Students write about their experiences after drinking an invisibility potion.

In this language arts worksheet, students write a story about a dream beach. Students use the illustrated word banks provided for each story.

In this creative writing worksheet, 3rd graders read a short passage about a fire. Students then rewrite the story in a more descriptive manner using the words provided in the box.

Bring the drama of history to life in your class and give your learners the opportunity to illustrate their understanding of a historical situation through the medium of a dialogue and/or play. Your young historians will consider a...

Challenge your class to find the three purposes for writing. After they read three short passages, kids note whether the author's purpose was to inform, persuade, or entertain.

How can you tell the author's purpose from just a short summary? Kids read three different summaries of books to determine whether the author meant to entertain, persuade, or inform.

Students write a short composition about learning something new that is hard to do after reviewing the nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives, and conjunctions in a picture-word bank.

For this Language Arts learning exercise, students color in a picture of flowerpot. Students also write a story or description about the illustration.

Furry friends are a big part of kids' lives, and here, they can be immortalized in pictures and stories. Give your learners a chance to draw and color their pets - real or pretend - and then write a short sentence about them.

In this writing worksheet, students examine a picture of a bunny. Students write a story about what they would do if they could take it home. Students illustrate the story.

In this writing worksheet, learners write a story about what makes them special. Students illustrate their story in the space provided.

In this literacy worksheet, students draw a picture of their bed and then write a sentence describing it or significant events about it.

In this language arts activity, students sing a song about snowmen and write a story.

In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter that asks if they have a special hiding place. Students write the story and illustrate it.

In this writing worksheet, scholars use a word bank that includes naming, connecting, and describing words to write about how they would build a candy house.

In this creative writing worksheet, students read a poem about a kitten called "A Serious Question" by Carolyn Wells. Students rewrite the poem, filling in the blanks with different words on their own.

In this ESL storytelling activity, students read ten questions about a story and invent their own answers. Students write the story and then complete 2 pages of questions about what they have written.

Follow up a class reading of the children's book Officer Buckle and Gloria with this simple sequence-of-events worksheet. Including pictures of six key moments from the story, young learners must first number them in the correct...

In this writing instructional activity, students make a list of all the things that make them sad, happy, lonely, angry, afraid and silly. Students then write 6 short poems and put them together to make their own personal book of poems.