3rd Grade Creative Writing Worksheets

Ages 8-9 · 8 sub-topics · Free previews · Print-ready PDFs

Creative writing is planning and telling a story you make up. These creative writing worksheets for 3rd grade help children plan and write their own stories (CCSS W.3.3). Eighteen one-page story planners each open with a short model on another topic: a fable where two animals trade jobs for a day, a mystery about the class plant that disappears, an adventure on a family camping trip, a tall tale about the biggest snowstorm ever, a fairy tale with a twist ending and a story told by a backpack or lunch box, plus earlier planners for a pourquoi tale, science fiction on a made-up planet and a story told in dialogue. Twelve two-page story sheets pair a topic, such as an invisible classmate, a door in an old tree or a wish that went wrong, with an organizer and lines for eight or more sentences. Six more pages cover an essay brainstorm web, an essay planner, a paragraph hamburger, topic sentences and reasons, opinion and reasons and an editing checklist, and a Veterans Day poem template has children write about a veteran line by line. There are 37 original sheets, none with an answer key, since every child writes their own ideas.

Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher