Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

Whether it’s a poet, inventor, or famous scientist, this worksheet will help learners gather and organize important information.

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

This research, drawing, and writing worksheet is a fun introduction to informational and science writing.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Come up with your dream home location, and practice writing opinions with this 1st grade opinion worksheet!

With the help of this reading and writing worksheet, young learners will learn about the first all-female spacewalk and then imagine what it would be like to be a space explorer themselves!

Your kids will love learning and sharing about animals in this engaging research activity! Engage students in the research process as they prepare to write informational books about animals.

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Your first graders have been working hard on honing their narrative writing, so now it's time to put their practice into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to develop a setting when writing narrative texts.

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a harrowing experience at a baseball game!

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Challenge your students to form a well-reasoned argument with this writing prompt (and rubric!) that's sure to evoke some strong opinions. Students will think about how much homework second graders should be given and make their case in essay form.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Children practice conceptualizing a million in this creative writing exercise.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

This poetry worksheet is sure to get your child's creative juices flowing! Students will seek to write their own limerick by filling in blank spaces for nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Then they'll add an illustration to complete their poem!

What if you had $1,000, but you couldn't spend it on yourself? Flex your creativity and goodwill thinking with this writing prompt.

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write an opinion piece. Students are tasked with writing a review of a book or movie of their choice, making sure to include a summary, their opinion, and supporting reasons.

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

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.

Let's be honest: some things inspire your child more than others. Play along with what first grader already loves with this dessert-themed worksheet!

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

Write a letter to the president of the United States with this fill-in-the-blanks worksheet!

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?