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

Have you ever heard of a half-horse, half-fish? In old Mediterranean folklore these mythical beasts are quite common!

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.

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

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

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.

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

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

Become a more powerful writer with this worksheet about sentence structure created for third and fourth graders!

After reading the classic Aesop fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," students will use their imaginations to compose their own introductions using one of the most common story hooks (fact, question, description, statement, or sound).

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!

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

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

Analyze a friendly letter with this second-grade reading worksheet!

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

What's going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child's creativity to be complete!

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.

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.

Reminisce on a fun summer with this second-grade writing worksheet!