This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

This activity encourages your students to write a poem about their favorite animals! Help your students hone their poetry writing skills using this list poem template.

With this worksheet, students will think about something they would like to see changed in the world. Provide them with this graphic organizer to organize their ideas.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

What do you want to be when you grow up? This cute worksheet will help them learn about supporting the main idea with supporting details with their writing.

There are so many amazing animals found in the ocean! Help your students decide on one animal to write and draw about as they practice their writing skills.

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Who doesn't love dreaming about their ideal vacation? Help your young writers share their opinion of the best place to vacation while using this handy paragraph organizer.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Write an informational essay about a summer topic like vacations, swimming pools, or outside games. Inspire your students to plan their essay with this summer-themed graphic organizer.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

In this worksheet, students will write a story about their recent history using important storytelling words like first, next, after, and finally. Challenge your students to write an interesting ending!

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.