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2nd and 3rd Grade Common Core Prewriting Resources : Page 3

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

My Story's Characters

Ready to add some magic to the standard creative writing process?

Magical Writing

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Writing Prompt: Stranded on a Deserted Island

Give your students practice using their narrative writing skills with this fun worksheet.

The Stories of Summer

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Help your child get started on his storytelling skills with this worksheet about characters!

Characterization

Ready for sentence building liftoff! This worksheet will help your second grader build his creative writing skills and practice forming sentences.

Make a Space Shuttle Sentence

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Tall Tales for Kids

What is this funny dinosaur doing? Help your second grader rearrange the jumbled words, and add in the missing words to make a complete sentence.

Sentence Making Dino!

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Snowflake Writing

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

Could It Happen?

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

Winter Writing Activity

What's going on here? Your child can decide what's happening and where these characters might go next, using this writing prompt as a start.

Writing Inspiration for Kids

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

Make It Realistic!

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

Make a Speedy Sentence

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Writing a Tall Tale

Give your students the opportunity to turn boring titles into interesting titles!

Turning Titles Around

Is that a pirate on a dinosaur's back? Yes. Why? Let your child decide (and slip in great composition skills practice)!

Pirate Writing

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

Chinese New Year: Mini Lantern Template

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Write an Earth Day Song

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

Two Truths and One Lie: Sonia Sotomayor

Can you name what trick this skateboarder is doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Skateboarding Sentences!

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

Something Difficult

What story can your second grader come up with for this winter scene? They also get some coloring time to go along with the story they write.

Ice Skating Story Starter

Children will enjoy dreaming up their dream Valentine&#39;s Day gift in this simple drawing and writing prompt.

My Dream Gift: Valentine's Day

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

Writing Narratives with Spooky Adjectives

Mmmm! Can you smell the Christmas cookies in the oven? Warm up your child's writing skills with this Christmas cookies writing prompt.

Christmas Cookies Writing Prompt

What is this tractor trying to build? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Tractor Building Sentences

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

Naming Narratives and Nonfiction

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