Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

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.

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

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

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

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

Punctuation Pig offers a lesson in punctuating dialogue in this playful grammar worksheet.

Learners practice editing dialogue for punctuation in this appealing grammar worksheet.

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

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

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

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.

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

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