How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

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

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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).

There's more than one way to hook a reader! Help your students reinforce their understanding of captivating story starters with this Goldilocks-themed matching worksheet.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

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

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

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

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

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

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

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

No more abrupt “The End”s! Students will organize and reflect on their narrative’s problem and solution as they work toward a strong ending.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.