After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

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

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

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.

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

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

Use this handy worksheet to help your students (and you!) keep track of their writing goals. Refer to the goals during writing workshop conferences, and be sure to have students add to them and revise them as needed.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Give your students extra practice in writing titles and headlines that include correct capitalization.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Kapow! Wham! Creative writing can be daunting for some kids, but it doesn't have to be! Help excite and inspire your reluctant writers with this fun comic book template.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

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

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

This writing exercise integrates both the construction of a friendly letter and the labeling of standard letter components.

This worksheet explains to kids what an acrostic poem is, and then challenges them to write an acrostic poem that describes each word provided.

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

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

Use this resource to assess your students’ skills when it comes to responding to narrative prompts.