Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

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

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.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

Your second graders have been developing their opinion writing over the course of the year. Now it's time to assess your students' abilities to develop a well-reasoned argument with this end-of-year writing prompt about homework.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Second graders love field trips! Help them share their opinion about the best field trip location while using this handy paragraph organizer.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.