Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

Children practice reading with extra sharp eyes in this editing and reading comprehension worksheet.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

Give your students extra practice in writing titles and headlines that include correct capitalization.

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

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Help young readers think critically about the organization of a paragraph using this reading and writing activity. Students will read a paragraph about recycling and then choose the best sentences to add to the piece to make it even better!