Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.