Keep Students Writing With Printable Narrative Writing Story Starter Worksheets

Encouraging kids to write daily, even just for a few minutes, can have many benefits. Not only does it help them come up with creative ideas and stories, but it also improves their language skills. Writing is an excellent way for kids to express their feelings and share the fantastic things from their imaginations. When kids write daily, they learn the value of imaginative thinking and its possibilities. This year, we encourage you to get your students into a daily writing routine with these fun narrative writing prompt worksheets from Teach Starter!

Narrative Writing Prompts, Word Banks, and More!

This download includes a whopping 24 brand-new narrative writing prompts in an easy-to-use, no-prep worksheet format. We’ve included a wide variety of story starters that you can pick and choose from to engage and encourage your students to write. Each narrative prompt also includes a visual stimulus and a bank of words for students to pull from when writing their stories.

Each worksheet has space for a short story, but we have also included an additional sheet of lined paper for each worksheet in case your students write longer texts. Here are just a few of the fun narrative prompts you’ll find in this download:

• Buried Treasure
• A Cheeky Monkey
• Visiting the Dinosaur Zoo
• My Robot Friend
• A Midnight Visitor
• And more!

Download and Print!

This resource is available as an easy-to-use Google Slides or Printable PDF Resource file. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select your preferred file format. Make your copies, pass them out to your students, and you’re ready to begin!

Note: If you prefer the double-sided version, we recommend first printing the whole pack in 2-sided format and then making copies of the individual worksheets.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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