This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

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

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

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

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

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

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

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

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

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.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

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

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

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

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Budding essayists will practice organizing their ideas using the template and prompts on this worksheet.