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.

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.

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.

In this activity, students will look at how to use quotation marks and and where they should go in a sentence.

Young editors will read "Josie's Garden" and add commas, periods, and quotation marks. Practice with punctuation perfectly in this punctuation worksheet.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

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.

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

Up, up, and away! Kids love to explore new places! Use this awesome travel writing template as a launching point for your students to hone their writing and editing skills.

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

Learn how to use coordinating conjunctions and practice using them in sentences.

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

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.

Give your students practice in using editing symbols for punctuation and capitalization.

Successful peer conferences are a breeze with this narrative writing checklist! Students will review their own writing and a partner's writing, checking for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.