Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

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

Your kids will love learning and sharing about animals in this engaging research activity! Engage students in the research process as they prepare to write informational books about animals.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Take notes on peer conversations as students explain points that support their answers.

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

This 3-page worksheet about opinion writing for kids provides a topic and poses questions to help them organize their thoughts and write their opinion.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

What if your child were President? Get your learner's political mind pumping with a writing activity about what they would do as President of the United States.

This poetry worksheet is sure to get your child's creative juices flowing! Students will seek to write their own limerick by filling in blank spaces for nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Then they'll add an illustration to complete their poem!

It's time to put on your creative writing caps! Your students will enjoy writing their own endings to this unfinished story!

What turned Louie's frown upside-down? This cute story starter gets your first grader writing a turtle tale.

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

Give students an opportunity to think deeply and hone their writing skills with this inspirational writing prompt based on a quote by Malala Yousafzai.

Students read background information about March as National Music in Our Schools Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Your first graders have been hard at work learning how to write engaging narratives, so now it's time to put their knowledge into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to use key details when writing narrative t

Floyd and Roly are best friends and neighbors! Help your child stretch his writing skills with this fill-in-the-speech-bubbles worksheet.

Prepare students for reading A Night to Remember by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity.

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!

I spy a typo! Students will get to put on their copy editing hats in this fun worksheet. By looking closely at the sample narratives, students check for correct ending punctuation and capitalization.

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

Put proper punctuation into practice with this Bumble Bee read-along worksheet.

After writing a draft of an informational piece, have students edit their writing with this handy checklist. Students will check their writing for correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, as well as an accurate table of contents.

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.

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!