Learners will learn about a winter holiday, then complete the graphic organizer with their notes, using this festive research template.

Use these card templates to incorporate more opportunities for gratitude in your day-to-day life by sharing what you are thankful for with your friends and family.

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

Transition words are essential to good writing! They provide structure and organization by connecting ideas and sentences. Help your students become familiar with common transition words with this fun word search!

Help your students develop and prepare a well-reasoned argument with this handy organizer! First students will choose a topic that they feel strongly about, then they'll explain the reasons for their opinion and practice writing a concluding statement.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

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

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.

Encourage your writers to use this graphic organizer worksheet when writing an informative essay. Fill in the bubbles for topic, main ideas, and supporting details.

Up, up, and away! Kids love to explore new places! Use this awesome travel writing template as a launching point for your students to hone their writing and editing skills.

What's going on here? Your child can decide what's happening and where these characters might go next, using this writing prompt as a start.

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

It's time to put on your creative writing caps! Your students will enjoy writing their own endings to this unfinished story!

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Second graders love telling stories! Help them plan their own small moment stories using this handy graphic organizer.

Use this graphic organizer to help your students learn how to write a fully formed opinion. This helpful worksheet breaks down opinion writing into three easy steps that will have your kids conquering persuasive writing in no time!

Make a hand-crafted Father's Day gift -- and work on writing at the same time -- with this retro-inspired Father's Day card.

Plants are resources used in everything from food, to clothes, and for making other products. Writing and research come together for this basic worksheet.

Preservation of natural resources happens in lots of ways, big and small. When you don't want something to run out too quickly, what can you do to help?

Have any good ideas for recreational resources? The term "recreational resources" has to do with the activities we do for enjoyment and the places that we go.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Practice letter-writing basics with this cut-out Mother's Day card template!

Teaching kids what's recyclable and what's not is more important than ever. Give your kids the recycling lowdown with this activity-packed printable.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

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

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