Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

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.

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.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

Make writing fun with this dinosaur writing prompt, perfect for kids who are fascinated by the prehistoric world.

This fun acrostic poem for kids reviews simple sight words about the one place they're most familiar with besides home...school!

A fill-in-the-blank Christmas wishlist for boys and girls.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

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

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

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

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.