Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Feeling grateful is what Thanksgiving is all about! Let your first grader express his gratitude with a fun drawing activity.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

Can you help this froggie princess tell her tale? Give your child some creative inspiration to write a story with this fun coloring page

Once students have completed their first draft of informational writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

In this creative writing prompt, students will imagine what it would be like to turn into a werewolf at the stroke of midnight every Halloween. 

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

Finish this cartoon by writing the script and filling the speech bubbles.

Is your first grader a heart surgeon in the making? Or maybe a world-famous chef? Encourage your child to explore the future as he practices his handwriting.

How do people celebrate Diwali? Help your little one learn about a traditional Hindu holiday celebrated in the fall.

How does this story start and end? Let's draw the story to practice storytelling and comprehension skills!

What are you thankful for? Use this acrostic poem template to inspire your learners to reflect on the theme of gratitude.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

Kids brainstorm personal narrative topics with this printable.

Have you heard of an eco-friendly robot? Give your child a head start writing a creative story with this fun coloring page.

What is this silly dog doing up in outer space? Challenge your child to write a story to go along with the picture in this coloring page!

Editing is more fun with a partner! After writing a draft of an informational piece, this activity gets students working in pairs to improve their writing. Partners will read each other's work and then use this worksheet to provide constructive feedback.

Is your kid obsessed with video games? He needs to practice handwriting somehow, so let him imagine what video game he would make and write about it.

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells out a word or message! Give your child a fun challenge with this acrostic "mother" poem starter.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

Mix history and fiction and write your own story about what would happen if Captain Hook of "Peter Pan" and Captain Blackbeard met!

In this illustrated worksheet, children read about four Kwanzaa traditions, then reflect on a holiday tradition of their own.

This creative worksheet inspires students to think of themselves as artists!

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Get creative with this playful writing prompt that's perfect for Halloween-time or for kids who love the supernatural.

Get creative juices flowing with this desert island story starter that encourages creative thinking and helps reinforce the link between words and pictures.

What lurks inside this spooky house? Your 5th grader can invent her own scary story based on this haunting illustration!

Inspire your little storyteller to exercise her imagination with an adorable story starter! How did this rhino become a ballerina?