Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Your first graders have been working hard on honing their narrative writing, so now it's time to put their practice into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to develop a setting when writing narrative texts.

Students will use this fun and colorful revision technique to edit a piece of sample writing.

Use this helpful writing prompt to assess your students’ ability to share their opinions through writing.

Give students another opportunity to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt, featuring a quote by Helen Keller.

Sparks students' creative thinking with this Earth Day-themed reflective writing prompt.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Your kids will love learning and sharing about animals in this engaging research activity! Engage students in the research process as they prepare to write informational books about animals.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

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

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Find out if you've got a little haiku master on your hands with our haiku worksheet. A simple poetry form, a haiku is perfect for beginning writers.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

This language arts assessment will provide insight into your students' ability to write an animal report.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

A day of fishing is interrupted by a giant sea monster! What happens next? This writing prompt will help your student stretch his imagination.

Our limerick worksheet is sure to tickle your kid's funny bone! This limerick exercise teaches them how to write a limerick.

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

Prepare students for reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor by accessing and building background knowledge!

Here's a pretty silly writing prompt. How do a bird from the arctic and a bird from a tropical island meet up one day? Your child can decide!

Give students another chance to think deeply and hone their writing skills with this relatable writing prompt based on a Babe Ruth quote.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, encourage students to examine the novel's setting with this creative writing worksheet! 

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.