Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

This graphic organizer introduces kids to informational writing by asking them to explain how to play a game to a new friend.

What if Peter Rabbit met the White Rabbit in Wonderland? Writing practice starts with a fun coloring page, what happens next is up to your child to write!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Your child can grab her pencils, both plain and colored, and get to work flexing her literary muscles by writing an illustrating a fairy tale.

What's going on here? Your child can decide what's happening and where these characters might go next, using this writing prompt as a start.

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

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.

This story starter featuring an alien family trip will engage your second grader in a fun coloring exercise and help strengthen his writing skills!

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

Let your first grader brag a bit about his best skills and enjoyable, after-school activities.

Use this template as a starting place for your students to hone their writing and editing skills. First, they'll have to convince someone to take a trip to a place of their choosing, then they'll edit their piece before rewriting.

Which food does your child like more: watermelon or waffles? Practice writing opinions with this fun 1st grade opinion worksheet!

With this worksheet, students will think about something they would like to see changed in the world. Provide them with this graphic organizer to organize their ideas.

Second graders will pick their favorite activity from the year to display their narrative writing skills, and the handy rubric makes it easy to provide constructive feedback on all the essential components.

Exaggeration in storytelling is no big secret. Help your child write a story about himself with this exercise in telling tall tales.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Help students reflect on revisions to their work and improve their writing with this worksheet.

Feeling grateful is what Thanksgiving is all about! Let your first grader express his gratitude with a fun drawing activity.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Write an informational essay about a summer topic like vacations, swimming pools, or outside games. Inspire your students to plan their essay with this summer-themed graphic organizer.

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

What would happen if two snails entered a race? Start your own story with these slow-and-steady snails!

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.

Beginning readers track when they read by touching each word. In this worksheet, students will touch each word they read then count the total words in each sentence.

Have you seen the Easter Bunny? Help your first grader write his very own Easter story. He'll recall some fun memories, plus he'll build writing skills!

Create some Halloween poetry with this acrostic poem-writing worksheet!

This cat looks crafty, but how does the story end? Give your child a head start writing a creative story with this fun coloring page.

What is the boy in his swim trunks asking the boy in his rain coat? Use your imagination and write down questions the two boys may be asking each other!

Have you ever heard of a giraffe that loves to roller skate? This fun-filled story starter is sure to put a smile on your little writer's face.