Calculating caterpillars and capricious crayfish! Your child will be laughing as he learns some new vocabulary and practices using alliteration.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Uh oh! Either way you're in trouble with this scary and thrilling creative writing prompt.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

Give your students practice planning purposeful writing!

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

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.

Practice paraphrasing without plagiarizing, an important skill to learn in middle school. Your child will learn about Beethoven as she paraphrases this passage.

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.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

Match these famous movie quotes with their films! Some of these famous movie quotes from classics, and others are from new favorites for a fun challenge.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

Practice writing sensory poetry using this fun template that will get students thinking, drawing, and writing.

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Can you spot the yeti? Help your child learn about a famous mythical creature with this page all about the yeti!