Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

If your child needs some punctuation practice, give him a challenge with a quick quotation marks quiz!

This friendly sea turtle is trying to say something, can you help him? Give your second grader practice writing sentences with this worksheet.

What is going on in this picture? Have fun with this picture writing prompt, a great way to boost creativity in your young writer.

Give your young writer a chance to practice procedural writing by sharing how to complete a simple recipe of their choosing. Having students consider each step of a process sets them up for success when writing how-to books.

This research, drawing, and writing worksheet is a fun introduction to informational and science writing.

Where does the food in the grocery store come from? Get your student ready to investigate their local grocery store with this fun worksheet and activity.

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

Is the sleeping dragon a watchdog or a pet? Your fifth grader can write her own story with this fun writing prompt.

What do want to be when you grow up? This worksheet gives kids the space to represent their answer to that question through drawing and writing.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Sort out your facts with this comprehension exercise! Kids will learn to tell the difference between facts and opinions as they read each statement.

After writing a draft of an informational piece, have students edit their writing with this handy checklist. Students will check their writing for correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, as well as an accurate table of contents.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

Get learners' creative juices flowing with this fun leap year-inspired writing prompt!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

This 3-page worksheet about opinion writing for kids provides a topic and poses questions to help them organize their thoughts and write their opinion.

What will happen to this cave-man? Your 5th grader can decide by writing a creative and exciting story to go with this illustration.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

After learning about a predator/prey relationship in the wild, students can use these organizers as a pre-writing exercise for informational paragraph writing. Students will use action verbs and adjectives to describe their predator and prey.

Children are guided through the process of writing clear, well supported arguments with this writing template.

Keeping a journal is a great way to remember special moments! Use this printable diary entry to help your child build great writing skills.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.