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.

Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

Does your child have a wild imagination? Give them a fun outlet with a creative writing prompt! This one asks them to imagine a hidden door they've discovered.

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

Learners will gather information about the traditions their families celebrate throughout the year, and pick one tradition to learn more about.

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Up, up, and away! Kids love to explore new places! Use this awesome travel writing template as a launching point for your students to hone their writing and editing skills.

Does your child need a head start in creative writing? Give her this story starter worksheet, and she'll help Marnie figure out how to bake her muffins!

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.

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Who doesn't love a good checklist? This handy worksheet can help budding letter writers make sure they include all the parts of a friendly letter.

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

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

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

What if you discovered a secret passageway in your house! Write a story to tell what you'd do next in that situation.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

What do want to be when you grow up? This worksheet gives kids the space to represent their answer to that question through drawing and writing.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Young writers will reflect on what the holiday season means to them with this seasonal writing prompt.

This Father's Day, encourage your child to get to know dad a little better by writing a brief biography.

Students will use this fun and colorful revision technique to edit a piece of sample writing.

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

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

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?

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