This apple shape book activity lets K-2nd grade children color, cut out and write their own apple story on cover, picture and writing pages with kid-sized lines.
This barn shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own farm story, then cut out and staple the barn pages into a book to share.
This back to school adjective writing activity helps 1st to 3rd grade students plan a first-day story and add describing words. An answer key is included for the practice page.
This let's write RAFT writing activity gives 2nd and 3rd grade writers 12 prompt cards, a planner and a publish page to write from a new point of view. Answer key included.
This adding details to your story activity helps kindergarten to 3rd grade writers turn one sentence into a longer story with question cards and a planner. Answer key included, so practice is quick to check.
This house shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own story about home, then cut out and staple the house pages into a book to share.
This write about a time when. . . activity gives 2nd to 5th grade writers 16 star topic cards, a story planner and a writing page for true stories. Answer key included.
Using this SL.2.4 Common Core Activity , studentstell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
This boy shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own story, then cut out and staple the boy-shaped pages into a book to share.
This ask me about it speaking and listening activity gives Kindergarten to 2nd Grade children topic cards, question cards and a spinner to share, ask and answer, with an answer key included.
Using this Flower Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about flowers or Springtime.
This computer shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own story about computers, then cut out and staple the pages into a book to share.
This tell us about it speaking activity gives Kindergarten to 3rd Grade children 24 story cards and a spinner so they can practice telling true stories with details to a group.
Using the Tell the Group Speaking and Listening Activity, students report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant.
Using thisSilly Stories Story Starters, studentschoose a Character, Setting and Plot from the picture and word cards to write or tell a story about the fun and unique combination.
Using this Girl Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about girl main characters.
Every kid has a story to tell
Second graders write stories about real or imagined events with a clear beginning, middle and end. They tell events in order using transition words like first, next, then, finally, and add details about what characters did, thought and felt. They start a story with a hook that grabs the reader and finish with an ending that wraps things up, sometimes with a lesson learned. Kids also try adding dialogue to bring characters to life. The magic moment comes when kids read their stories aloud and the class laughs or gasps in all the right places.
Second graders have big imaginations. These moves help them organize their ideas into real stories.
Give kids an interesting picture and ask "What happened before this? What happens next?" They plan three boxes for beginning, middle and end before writing. A picture prompt helps reluctant writers get started fast.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withYou Write the Story Helping Picture WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Write a short story in front of the class about something small, like losing a tooth. Highlight your transition words as you go. Kids see how first, next and finally carry the reader through the story.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withSequence Writing WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Pick one exciting moment in a child's story and have them add what the character saw, heard and felt. One sentence becomes three. This simple move turns plain stories into vivid ones.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withAdding Details to Your Story ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Story writing is play with a pencil. These make it even more fun.
WorksheetsFill in speech bubbles for cartoon characters, then turn them into sentences with quotation marks.
Open Cartoon Character Dialogue Worksheet →
WorksheetsPlan a new fairy tale with a twist, like a kind wolf or a sneaky princess.
Open Fairy Tales Planning Page Worksheet →
WorksheetsWrite about a time you learned something important and share the lesson at the end.
Open Lesson Learned Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Apple Shape Book Activity, Barn Shape Book Activity and Back to School Adjective Writing Activity.
Narrative writing tells a story about real or made-up events. Second graders write stories with a beginning, middle and end, details, and transition words.
Most 2nd grade narratives are one to two paragraphs, or about five to ten sentences. Quality and order matter more than length.
Talk about the story out loud first. Ask what happens first, next and last, then help them write each part. Drawing pictures first can help too.
Common ones are first, next, then, after that, later and finally. They help readers follow the order of events.
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