Make taking notes fun by having your students use this handy organizer to collect their thoughts while learning about predators and prey. Students will note what they learn, questions they have, and new or interesting vocabulary words they hear.

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!

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

Students will get to track their own learning on a topic using this graphic organizer. First they'll write down thoughts and questions they have about a topic. After reading, they'll record their new thoughts and consider how their responses have changed.

Second graders love telling stories! Help them take one small moment and write across many pages using this helpful planning organizer.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Your students will flesh out their personal narratives using this brainstorming guide.

Give your child an imagination vacation with this fun creative writing prompt, where she'll write about traveling to a far away land.

This Valentine's Day, create a special card for your loved one in the form of a heart-shaped cinquain.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Why do we celebrate Easter? Encourage your child to practice her creative writing skills by answering this holiday question.

Children practice gratitude in this fall-themed worksheet that invites them to write down the things they are grateful for.

Use this template as a starting place for your students to hone their writing and editing skills. First, they'll have to convince someone to take a trip to a place of their choosing, then they'll edit their piece before rewriting.

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

Can you imagine what it's like to be the Easter Bunny? Get your child in the Easter mood with this fun writing prompt!

A valentine acrostic poem can help your child express his thoughts and opinions on Valentine's Day. Write a valentine acrostic poem with your kid this February.

Children will enjoy dreaming up their dream Valentine's Day gift in this simple drawing and writing prompt.

Inspire your little storyteller to exercise her imagination with an adorable story starter! How did this rhino become a ballerina?

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.

What is this tractor trying to build? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

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

Get your facts straight with this basic logic worksheet! Your child can practice telling the difference between facts and opinions.

Help students improve peer writing conferences with this reflection exercise. Students will think critically about the feedback they received, discussing the comments they found most and least helpful. Afterwards, have them share their best peer feedback!

Is that a pirate on a dinosaur's back? Yes. Why? Let your child decide (and slip in great composition skills practice)!

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.

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.

What if Peter Rabbit met the White Rabbit in Wonderland? Writing practice starts with a fun coloring page, what happens next is up to your child to write!

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

Second graders will hone their creative writing skills to come up with fabulous titles of their very own using this fun worksheet! Students will answer questions to help them hone in on the perfect title for their story.