The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Learners will gather information about the traditions their families celebrate throughout the year, and pick one tradition to learn more about.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

Kids practice argument writing by taking a position on devices in the classroom.

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.

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

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

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

With this printable worksheet, students practice writing transition words and identify strong endings for stories.

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

Untangle the strands of a story with this spider web graphic organizer!

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Put proper punctuation into practice with these read-along stories.

Challenge your kids to translate LOL into an academic sentence! Give your students extra practice rewriting online comments so that they fit the academic setting.

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

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.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Great writing is in the details! As students revise their narrative writing, encourage them to use more descriptive details. This worksheet helps students dig deeper and revise their writing to include more adjectives.

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.