Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

If your child needs some punctuation practice, give him a challenge with a quick quotation marks quiz!

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

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

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Get to know the true story of the midnight ride and the start of the American Revolution with this historical graphic novel.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

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.

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

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Get into the spirit of Halloween, and write about your scariest experience! This writing prompt is a fun way to build grammar and vocabulary skills.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.