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

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

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

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

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

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

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

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

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

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

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

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

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

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

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!