Encourage an entrepreneurial spirit with this Respond to a Topic worksheet that gets kids thinking about what type of business they could build!

Get learners' creative juices flowing with this thought-provoking, leap year-inspired writing prompt!

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

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

Successful peer conferences are a breeze with this narrative writing checklist! Students will review their own writing and a partner's writing, checking for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Learners practice their creative writing with this fun, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a costume with a superpower twist!

In this writing exercise, children write a descriptive paragraph or two about the colors that surround them in autumn.

Practice argumentative writing with this prompt about making Earth Day a national holiday. 

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Look out, a twister is headed this way! This tornado writing prompt is sure to trigger a creative story from your young writer.

The California condor has been brought back from the brink of extinction. This worksheet will help your little bird lover learn all about the condor.

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

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

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.

Students read background information about June as National Great Outdoors Month and then respond to reflective questions.

The grizzly bear once roamed across most of North America; now its habitat has shrunk to the northwest. Discover more about the grizzly with this worksheet.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Introduce your students to argument writing with this high-interest prompt about homework!

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Children will learn how and when to use quotation marks in dialogue and titles, then practice what they have learned.

Get to know more about your family's meaningful traditions with this fun interview activity.

Thanksgiving is a special time of year to get children talking about being thankful. Use these writing prompts to explore three different types of writing on the same topic.

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

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).

If you're stuck at home this summer, try these fun pretend postcards instead for an exercise in creative writing!

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!