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.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

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

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!

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Your students have been working hard all year on their narrative writing skills. Now it's time to see just how much they've learned! Assess your students' growth with this narrative writing prompt and rubric.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

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.

After reading the classic Aesop fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," students will use their imaginations to compose their own introductions using one of the most common story hooks (fact, question, description, statement, or sound).

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

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Kids strengthen their pre-writing skills and learn about character development with this planning worksheet.

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

Once students have completed a first draft of narrative writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, compelling details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

What is your favorite spring activity? Answer this question and more about the spring season by filling in the blanks to complete the sentences.

This worksheet helps list ways to conserve natural resources by starting out each sentence with an idea.

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.

The most precious thing someone can give is their time. Reignite your love of giving with these time-giving activities. There are also some donation suggestions for used objects. This worksheet, 31 Days of Giving, can be used any 31 days of the year!

Rev your creative engines! This worksheet will help your second grader build his reading and writing skills, and practice making sentences of his very own.

Kindergarteners through second graders can use this versatile Biography Booklet printable to research and write about someone in booklet form.

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!

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

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.

This pink rabbit needs some punctuation! Kids will add pauses, quotes, and exclamations by adding the proper punctuation to this story.

What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving? Answer this question and more in this exercise that allows you to practice sentence writing.