Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Students read background information about July as National Anti-Boredom Month and then respond to reflective questions.

This goal setting worksheet is a great way for learners to identify measurable goals and make a plan for how to achieve them!

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Mapping out your thoughts before you start writing is key to a well-organized essay. Your students will map their first draft of a personal narrative using this graphic organizer.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

You know your first grader would leap at the chance to own a pet dinosaur. Let him explore the possibilities with this fun handwriting exercise!

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Let your child pretend to be a superhero and write a story about his super powers. He'll get some valuable handwriting practice in the process.

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

What is going on in this picture? Have fun with this picture writing prompt, a great way to boost creativity in your young writer.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Uh-oh! The punctuation has gone missing, and we need your students' help editing these personal narratives! By looking closely at a punctuation-less narrative, students practice using correct end punctuation in this fun worksheet.

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

Does your child have a wild imagination? Give them a fun outlet with a creative writing prompt! This one asks them to imagine a hidden door they've discovered.

This critical thinking worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, challenges kids to plain their own campaign tour!

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

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

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

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