Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

Research your favorite author, then map out biographical details on an idea web.

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

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.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Find out the names of some famous people that share your birthday month, then check and see what qualities you share!

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Let's get silly! Use this worksheet to help your students practice counting words and improving their handwriting while writing out these silly sentences.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

An acrostic poem is one of the most easy and rewarding ways for younger children to write poetry. Fill in the blanks to spell out "family".

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells out a word or message! Give your child a fun challenge with this acrostic "mother" poem starter.

What do you do at school every day? Help your child sort out her school routine and write it down, from beginning, to middle to end!

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.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

Does your child need a head start in creative writing? Give her this story starter worksheet, and she'll help Marnie figure out how to bake her muffins!

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.