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

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

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

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

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

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.

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

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.

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

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

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

Young editors will read "Josie's Garden" and add commas, periods, and quotation marks. Practice with punctuation perfectly in this punctuation worksheet.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

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.

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?

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 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.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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

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

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

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.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.