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.

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.

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

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.

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

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

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

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.

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

Increase your student's ability to spot incorrect grammar with this Sentence Fixer worksheet. Students will practice their capitalization, punctuation, and dialogue skills to fix up this set of sentences.

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

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

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

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

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

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

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

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

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

This worksheet asks students to find the transition words and to use them in their own sentences.

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.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

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.