Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Give your students a hand with basic logic, and help them decide what kinds of statements these are.

Getting your child in the Easter mood is not a problem with this writing prompt! Challenge her to think back on her favorite Easter memory and write about it.

Write a summer-themed dialogue for this mother and son, then color in the pictures.

Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

Become a more powerful writer with this worksheet about sentence structure created for third and fourth graders!

After reading the classic Aesop fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," students will use their imaginations to compose their own introductions using one of the most common story hooks (fact, question, description, statement, or sound).

Get creative this Valentine's Day with a writing prompt! Your child can use his imagination to come up with a story behind this romantic day.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

After learning about a predator/prey relationship in the wild, students can use these organizers as a pre-writing exercise for informational paragraph writing. Students will use action verbs and adjectives to describe their predator and prey.

It’s more fun to revise with a partner! After writing personal narratives, have students share their writing with a partner. Partners should identify at least three parts in the narrative where three descriptive details could be added.

What would happen if two snails entered a race? Start your own story with these slow-and-steady snails!

In this writing exercise, children write a descriptive paragraph or two about the colors that surround them in autumn.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.