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

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.

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

Your second graders have been developing their opinion writing over the course of the year. Now it's time to assess your students' abilities to develop a well-reasoned argument with this end-of-year writing prompt about homework.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Kindergarteners will write about their favorite foods with this journal worksheet. This activity will develop your students' writing and brainstorming skills while challenging them to fill up the entire page with words!

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Second graders love field trips! Help them share their opinion about the best field trip location while using this handy paragraph organizer.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

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

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.

Help your student warm up to opinion writing by asking him to write a review.

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

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

Give your students the opportunity to put a friendly letter together!

After reading the classic Aesop fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," students will use their imaginations to compose their own introductions using one of the most common story hooks (fact, question, description, statement, or sound).

This critical thinking worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, challenges kids to plain their own campaign tour!

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

Beginning readers can practice their comprehension skills by using this graphic organizer to diagram the plot of a story or book.

In this worksheet, students will write a story about their recent history using important storytelling words like first, next, after, and finally. Challenge your students to write an interesting ending!

This worksheet teaches first graders to identify the main idea and supporting details by arranging the sample sentences provided.

"The witch was on her broom with her..." Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader's wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

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

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.