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.

It’s fun to think about the future! In this activity, students write a persuasive paragraph about what they need to learn in order to make their dreams come true.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

The best type of introduction makes you want to learn more! Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing new and improved introductions using this grabby worksheet.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

A good introduction draws a reader into the story and makes them want to learn more. Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing strong introductions using this helpful worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and pick out the highs and lows of the year. We all go through them, and what is important is that we learn from them.

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Instead of reading the story and then reviewing it, kids have to put this mixed-up story back together in order to understand what's going on.

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

Young writers will practice the challenging skill of writing a strong concluding paragraph.

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!

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

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.