Stretch those writing skills with this "stretch a sentence" activity! Young writers will learn to expand on an idea by adding more details to a sentence.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Punctuation Pig offers a lesson in punctuating dialogue in this playful grammar worksheet.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

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.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

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

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

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.

Practice creative writing, storytelling, and dialogue skills as you create a dialogue in this comics activity.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!