Boost your child's writing skills with these simple sentence starters for beginning writers!

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

What do you want to be when you grow up? This cute worksheet will help them learn about supporting the main idea with supporting details with their writing.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

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.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help students practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story of a birthday.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

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

Untangle the strands of a story with this spider web graphic organizer!

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Children will enjoy dreaming up their dream Valentine's Day gift in this simple drawing and writing prompt.

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

Follow Chuck on vacation by looking at the pictures he took! What is he doing in each picture? Use your imagination and creativity to write captions for each.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.