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

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

If your child is struggling with writing composition, help him spark his imagination with a fun creative writing prompt.

This writing exercise integrates both the construction of a friendly letter and the labeling of standard letter components.

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

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

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

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

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

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

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

Children practice parts of speech as they learn about this special poetry genre.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

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

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

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

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

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

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.

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

Young writers will enjoy responding to an imaginative prompt about a pet dinosaur.

Untangle the strands of a story with this spider web graphic organizer!

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

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