Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Does your child need a head start in creative writing? Give her this story starter worksheet, and she'll help Marnie figure out how to bake her muffins!

It's a scene that needs a kid's finishing touch to be complete. Can your child finish the comic strip?

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

This organizer helps writers state their opinion and organize their reasons.

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

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

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Little Easter Bunnies, get out your creative thinking caps and delve into this Easter writing prompt. Can you think up the best Easter egg hunt?

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Where could this map lead to? Give your beginning writer a fun way to exercise his creativity.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Did you know that kids all over the globe know of the boogeyman? This cautionary tale is told in almost every country!

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

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Give your students practice using their narrative writing skills with this fun worksheet.

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

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

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.