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

What is your favorite spring activity? Answer this question and more about the spring season by filling in the blanks to complete the sentences.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

In this exercise your students will color code the key components of an example informative paragraph.

Find out if you've got a little haiku master on your hands with our haiku worksheet. A simple poetry form, a haiku is perfect for beginning writers.

Before students write opinion pieces, they need to understand the difference between facts and opinions. This worksheet teaches them to do just that by having students cut out various statements and sort them into fact and opinion categories.

Students will love learning about a new animal as they create an informational report using this helpful guide!

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Personal narrative writing is all about you! Get kids thinking and writing about their personal experiences and how they felt about them.

Writers will practice crafting a story around setting with this open-ended writing prompt.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Help struggling writers find their confidence with these sentence starters! Kids will use the prompts to help them get started telling a story.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Flex those writing skills with these clever prompts. Practice stretching sentences by adding details of who, what, when and where!

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Summer writing can start with drawing something fun, or thinking about their favorite parts of warm days. This worksheet is a fun quick-start for ideas.

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Hone writing skills by identifying opinion vs fact.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

This graphic organizer is a helpful tool for learners to gather and organize key information as they research an important person of their choice.