In this two-part project, children will choose five things they are thankful for, and write them on feathers.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

What kind of camping trip plan would your child make? They can write down details with this worksheet.

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Super powers and saving the world will make any child want to write! Your third grader will learn about adding supporting details to their main idea.

People often have different opinions, and it's okay to agree to disagree! Practice identifying opinions with this worksheet.

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

Practicing poets can refine their sense of meter and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.

Young historians learn about four pioneering female scientists as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women in Science worksheet.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Write the story to go along with this series of story illustrations with this fun writing prompt.

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Your students will be ready to write with this paragraph writing worksheet!

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.