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

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

Finished with the first draft of informational writing? Let this handy checklist guide students through a peer review conference! Students will check for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Successful peer conferences are a breeze with this narrative writing checklist! Students will review their own writing and a partner's writing, checking for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, guide students through a peer review conference with this checklist! Students will reread their own work and then a partner's work, checking for punctuation, capitalization, and more.

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.

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

If your child is struggling with writing composition, help him spark his imagination with a fun creative writing prompt.

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

What is the boy in his swim trunks asking the boy in his rain coat? Use your imagination and write down questions the two boys may be asking each other!

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

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

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help students practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story of a birthday.

Give your students the opportunity to turn boring titles into interesting titles!

Beginning readers can practice their comprehension skills by using this graphic organizer to diagram the plot of a story or book.