Get to know more about your family's meaningful traditions with this fun interview activity.

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

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Is spilling salt really bad luck? Read about the origins of this food superstition; it may not be as odd as you think!

In this worksheet, kids support an opinion about school lunches with reasons.

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

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.

This envelope template can help aspiring letter writers address their letters. Your students will love cutting out, folding, and addressing their own envelopes in this hands-on activity!

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

In this three-page template, students will follow the prompts to create a story map about a memorable moment of joy in their life.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

If Christmas were a person, what would he or she be like? Have some fun crafting the ultimate holiday character with this Christmas writing prompt!

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.

This story starter featuring an alien leaving to attend a birthday party will spark the imagination and provide writing practice, too!

No more abrupt “The End”s! Students will organize and reflect on their narrative’s problem and solution as they work toward a strong ending.

Floyd and Roly are best friends and neighbors! Help your child stretch his writing skills with this fill-in-the-speech-bubbles worksheet.

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Kids strengthen their pre-writing skills and learn about character development with this planning worksheet.

This cute worksheet asks your first grader to write a silly story about how this hungry monkey captures those yummy bananas.

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

Use this colorful, open-ended worksheet to help your learners understand the value of 100.

Learn about school uniforms around the world as students are going back to school!

In this creative essay-writing prompt, children identify something they love to do, then write the ways that they might turn this pastime into a vocation.

This board game doesn't require any strategy, just some imagination and creativity! Tell a story to make it through the obstacles to the other side.