Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

Help students to think critically and practice their writing skills with this thoughtful writing prompt based on a quote by Laotian American author Bryan Thao Worra.

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

Sort out adjectives in this sensational worksheet!

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!

These shaped writing prompts will get students writing and illustrating until there isn’t a spot of white left.

Practice bringing sensory words to life!

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.