Get to know your readers with this practice prompt, to help kids learn the importance of writing for an audience.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Write your own Abraham Lincoln biography using a simple essay template.

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

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

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Who doesn't love a good checklist? This handy worksheet can help budding letter writers make sure they include all the parts of a friendly letter.

Instead of reading the story and then reviewing it, kids have to put this mixed-up story back together in order to understand what's going on.

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

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

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe