Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

In this worksheet, kids support an opinion about school lunches with reasons.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Put proper punctuation into practice with these read-along stories.

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Floyd and Roly are best friends and neighbors! Help your child stretch his writing skills with this fill-in-the-speech-bubbles worksheet.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Put proper punctuation into practice with this Bumble Bee read-along worksheet.

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

A good introduction draws a reader into the story and makes them want to learn more. Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing strong introductions using this helpful worksheet.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, guide students through a peer review conference with this checklist! Students will reread their own work and then a partner's work, checking for punctuation, capitalization, and more.

It’s more fun to revise with a partner! After writing personal narratives, have students share their writing with a partner. Partners should identify at least three parts in the narrative where three descriptive details could be added.

Second graders love telling stories! Help them share their feelings when writing about one small moment using this helpful planning worksheet.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Finished with the first draft of informational writing? Let this handy checklist guide students through a peer review conference! Students will check for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

You've never heard a ghost story like The Phantom Knight of Vandal Camp! Discover the scares, if you dare, behind this tale before writing the ending.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Take a look at the colorful monster and practice writing by describing him!

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

Gerry is learning how to sew, but she needs some punctuation in her story! Your kid will add life to Gerry's story by adding commas, periods, and quotations.