What better time to write letters than the holidays? In this activity, students practice spelling holiday words while writing a letter to a friend or family member.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Children will read about four Hanukkah traditions, then write about a tradition of their own, with this festive writing prompt.

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

Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, guide students through a peer review conference with this checklist! Students will reread their own work and then a partner's work, checking for punctuation, capitalization, and more.

In a perfect world, what would your opinion be? Practice writing opinions with good evidence in this wonderful worksheet.

Find out the ingredients for a great opinion piece with this simple guide.

There are many ways to spice up personal narratives. From dialogue to pictures, this worksheet teaches students the benefit of adding descriptive elements to their writing.

Students opine about their favorite animals and give reasons for their picks in this worksheet.

In order to write informational texts, students need to research their topics. Use this handy notetaker to help students record and think through the new information they are gathering.

Help your child stretch her imagination to come up with a story starring a cast of underwater characters.

Your child can grab her pencils, both plain and colored, and get to work flexing her literary muscles by writing an illustrating a fairy tale.

This story starter featuring an alien family trip will engage your second grader in a fun coloring exercise and help strengthen his writing skills!

Write a Christmas story in this holiday-themed writing worksheet.

A polar bear on a beach? Give your silly storyteller a fun way to practice her writing skills with this picture-perfect story starter.

This page is ready for writing out a cowboy's tale. Kids can color in what their cowboy hat should look like then write their own cowboy story.

Keep those 1st grade handwriting skills building! Your young storyteller will write a story (make-believe or real-life) about the summer.

Kids usually have a lot to say when it comes to their birthdays. Instead of talking about it, challenge your child to write about it instead!

Did you know that flamingos can ice skate? This funny picture needs some color, and a story behind it!

Imagine if Sleeping Beauty were actually a boy! Will Sleeping Handsome be rescued by a beautiful knightess in shining armor?

This cuddly bear has a story to tell! Give your child a head start writing his own story with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest.

Is that polar bear eating an ice cream cone? Get your child into a creative writing mood with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest!

What is your favorite Easter candy? Before you dive into those chocolate treats, write a creative story about the best Easter egg goodies.

Here are a few fun things to help your first grader think about the spring season. What does he like to do? What do people wear in springtime?

"It was a dark and stormy night..." There's no better time to get some writing practice in than Halloween, when everyone becomes a character!

Children will write a story about Sheep and friends' fun night out together in this creative writing prompt.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will generate ideas about big events they've experienced and then pick one to focus their narratives on.

What is this giraffe up to? Let your child be the storyteller with this fun coloring worksheet.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

This exercise will challenge your child's powers of recollection as well as his communication skills. It also provides an introduction to the research process.