First Grade Ela Genre Writing Worksheets

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will consider past birthdays to see if they can come up with a small moment to focus their narratives on.

In this worksheet, your child will choose activities she likes and use the word "because" to back up her choices with written reasons.

Get creative juices flowing with this desert island story starter that encourages creative thinking and helps reinforce the link between words and pictures.

Tell a story worthy of Rudolph and Frosty with this creative holiday prompt!

This worksheet helps strengthen vocabulary and storytelling skills, and asks students to illustrate, emphasizing the relationship between words and pictures.

Celebrate Easter by trying your hand at acrostic poetry!

This snowman stationery is a great template for your child to write his letter to Santa! Plus, it's lined to help your child work on his handwriting skills.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

This cuddly bear has a story to tell! Give your child a head start writing his own story with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest.

What is this giraffe up to? Let your child be the storyteller with this fun coloring worksheet.

You know your first grader would leap at the chance to own a pet dinosaur. Let him explore the possibilities with this fun handwriting exercise!

Help students turn instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a cohesive piece of procedural writing. Using transition words is the key to successful how-to writing!

Have your 1st grader practice his handwriting and drawing while making up a story about going to outer space.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Show students how to support opinion statements with this worksheet.

Kids brainstorm personal narrative topics with this printable.

Is your first grader a heart surgeon in the making? Or maybe a world-famous chef? Encourage your child to explore the future as he practices his handwriting.

Dialogue adds pizazz to personal narratives and helps to bring the story to life! Give your young writers a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to a personal narrative with this writing prompt activity.

What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving? Answer this question and more in this exercise that allows you to practice sentence writing.

There are many ways to spice up personal narratives. From dialogue to pictures, this worksheet teaches students the benefit of adding descriptive elements to their writing.

Help Santa out by making him a wish list. Have your child fill-in the blanks with this Santa letter template, and send the letter off to the North Pole!

Your child can write a short story about the family dog (or make one up) while perfecting his penmanship!

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

Have you seen the Easter Bunny? Help your first grader write his very own Easter story. He'll recall some fun memories, plus he'll build writing skills!