Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Practice letter-writing basics with this cut-out Mother's Day card template!

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Children tap into their natural abilities in this worksheet that invites them to make a persuasive written argument!

Make writing fun with this dinosaur writing prompt, perfect for kids who are fascinated by the prehistoric world.

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

This volcano writing worksheet is a great story starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

What foods do you like to eat in the winter? Answer this question and more with this writing exercise that allows you to practice sentence writing.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

Can your child help Sarah make her writing less repetitive? This sentence combining exercise will help your child, too!

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

It's time to brainstorm! Use this worksheet to help budding writers generate a list of ideas and topics for future stories, as well as give students a chance to practice their letter and word spacing.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

Young writers will enjoy responding to an imaginative prompt about a pet dinosaur.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

This spooky writing activity will introduce your kid to list-writing: a great way to practice sentences and sequential events.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

This worksheet walks second and third graders through the steps of planning and writing a persuasive paragraph, from selecting a topic to forming an opinion and providing reasoning for their opinion.

Build great sentence writing skills with these sentence prompts for kids.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.