What is this tennis player doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Challenge your students to form a well-reasoned argument with this writing prompt (and rubric!) that's sure to evoke some strong opinions. Students will think about how much homework second graders should be given and make their case in essay form.

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

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.

In this inventive worksheet, children practice writing from the perspective of everyday items.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

What is the boy in his swim trunks asking the boy in his rain coat? Use your imagination and write down questions the two boys may be asking each other!

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

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

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

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

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

In this activity, students will look at how to use quotation marks and and where they should go in a sentence.

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

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.

Help your students plan a well-supported persuasive letter with this planning document.

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

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

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.

Super Floyd and Officer Ice Cream are off on an adventure! Help the dynamic duo save the day by filling in their speech bubbles.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

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