Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?

Research your favorite author, then map out biographical details on an idea web.

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

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

Children practice gratitude in this fall-themed worksheet that invites them to write down the things they are grateful for.

Help students improve peer writing conferences with this reflection exercise. Students will think critically about the feedback they received, discussing the comments they found most and least helpful. Afterwards, have them share their best peer feedback!

Is that a pirate on a dinosaur's back? Yes. Why? Let your child decide (and slip in great composition skills practice)!

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

Enjoy a sweet writing response page all about Valentine's Day. Kids will get to reflect on an important person in their life.

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

Did you know that in Australia, December 25th is actually during the summer? Imagine if we celebrated Christmas during the summer!

Children will enjoy dreaming up their dream Valentine's Day gift in this simple drawing and writing prompt.

Revision is an important skill for writers, but it can be tricky to develop. In this activity, students will practice their revision skills by adding details to make a story come to life and then rewriting their new and improved story.

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

Take a look at the colorful monster and practice writing by describing him!

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

They say that kissing the Blarney Stone will give you a special way with words! Let your little writer practice her eloquent writing this St. Patrick's Day.

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

Encourage students to share their writing with classmates and receive feedback to improve their writing with this peer publishing worksheet.

"The witch was on her broom with her..." Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader's wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.