Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

You've never heard a ghost story like The Phantom Knight of Vandal Camp! Discover the scares, if you dare, behind this tale before writing the ending.

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

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

What if you had $1,000, but you couldn't spend it on yourself? Flex your creativity and goodwill thinking with this writing prompt.

Encourage your writers to use this graphic organizer worksheet when writing an informative essay. Fill in the bubbles for topic, main ideas, and supporting details.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for a clear opinion, supporting reasons, a conclusion, and correct spelling and punctuation.

This handy checklist will be useful when editing all kinds of writing! Have your students use this helpful writing aid to make their writing even better as they check for correct capitalization, punctuation, neatness, and more.

Challenge your students to form a well-reasoned argument with this writing prompt (and rubric!) that's sure to evoke some strong opinions. Students will think about how much homework second graders should be given and make their case in essay form.

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

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.

It’s more fun to revise with a partner! After writing personal narratives, have students share their writing with a partner. Partners should identify at least three parts in the narrative where three descriptive details could be added.

In this inventive worksheet, children practice writing from the perspective of everyday items.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

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.

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.

Get your little storyteller in gear for creative writing! This story starter worksheet is perfect for honing your child's writing skills.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

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

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

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

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

Finished with the first draft of informational writing? Let this handy checklist guide students through a peer review conference! Students will check for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.