Fifth Grade Ela Genre Writing Worksheets

Using the brothers from Ender's Game, our writing worksheet gives your child the opportunity to examine any rivalries between him and his siblings or friends.

What is that strange object in the sky? This prompt will be a lift off for your young writer's imagination as he creates a story to match the picture.

What lurks inside this spooky house? Your 5th grader can invent her own scary story based on this haunting illustration!

Are there monsters in the closet? Your 5th grader will use her imagination to create a fun story based on this illustration!

The Peter Pan story says that mothers tidy their children's minds at night! Think deep and list what your mind is like before and after mom cleans up.

It's ninjas vs zombies! Who will win? Flex your imagination to create a funny or crazy story to answer this writing prompt.

What ten essentials would you pack in case of an emergency? Help kids think about disaster preparedness from zombie apocalypse point of view!

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

Your students will be digging into nonfiction texts in search of the purpose and main idea of a passage.

To grow up or not to grow up? Let your child decide (just for fun of course) and list the pros and cons after he reads this passage from Peter Pan.

The elegant and simply style of renga is the perfect way to introduce your child to the rhythm and style of poetry.

Researching, both online and offline, is a skill your student will find useful in any class. This writing worksheet gives her an interesting topic to research.

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

What if you came upon a monster in the woods? Have your little writer use his imagination to create a story based on this scene!

A soccer ball flies toward the goalie, but what happens next? Let your budding writer create his own story, using this picture prompt as a starting point.

How hard could it be to get rid of a cursed treasure chest? Your fifth grader will enjoy making up a story to go along with this illustration!

Imagine you are a reporter in the midst of a zombie outbreak! Bring some spookiness to your child's daily writing journal with this fun prompt.

What if a zombie horde went up against a viking horde? Your little writer will decide who will be victorious!

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.