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!

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

Having interviewed their classmates, students will practice their expository writing skills describing what they learned in complete sentences.

Zombies always have such a bad rep. Imagine a day in the life from the point of view of a zombie kid!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

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.

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

Young writers take on the perspective of a turkey in this creative writing exercise.

Imagine if Sleeping Beauty were actually a boy! Will Sleeping Handsome be rescued by a beautiful knightess in shining armor?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Practice bringing sensory words to life!

Students will use this fun and colorful revision technique to edit a piece of sample writing.

Have you ever heard of a pig with a sense of fashion? Challenge your child's creativity with this fun story starter.

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.

This story starter featuring an alien pet will provide first graders with some coloring fun and writing practice in one engaging exercise!

A cowboy meets a dragon but how does it end, and how did it start? Your young story teller can decide!

Help kids get familiar with the process of writing a thank you note, so they'll never complain about writer's block again.

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.

Get into a mad scientist state of mind with this fun science fiction writing prompt! Your child will imagine and describe a magical potion.

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.

Your students will be digging into nonfiction texts in search of the purpose and main idea of a passage.

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

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

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

What is your favorite Easter candy? Before you dive into those chocolate treats, write a creative story about the best Easter egg goodies.

Hooray, your students have written informational books! But have they also created a table of contents? Through this activity, young authors will consider the different sections of their writing as they add this important element to their books.