A strong hook will grab a reader's attention and pull them into your story! This organizer will help young writers try out different ideas and decide on the strongest hook for their personal narrative.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.

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

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

Did you know that kids all over the globe know of the boogeyman? This cautionary tale is told in almost every country!

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!

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Can you name what trick this skateboarder is doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

Students will use a comic book format to organize conversations within their personal narratives and practice the writing process.

Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Great writing is in the details! As students revise their narrative writing, encourage them to use more descriptive details. This worksheet helps students dig deeper and revise their writing to include more adjectives.

Practice proper punctuation with this read-along worksheet.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

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

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Use this handy worksheet to help your students (and you!) keep track of their writing goals. Refer to the goals during writing workshop conferences, and be sure to have students add to them and revise them as needed.

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

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

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

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!

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

Give your students practice in using editing symbols for punctuation and capitalization.

This pink rabbit needs some punctuation! Kids will add pauses, quotes, and exclamations by adding the proper punctuation to this story.

In this inventive worksheet, children practice writing from the perspective of everyday items.

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.