Stretch those writing skills with this "stretch a sentence" activity! Young writers will learn to expand on an idea by adding more details to a sentence.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Learners practice editing dialogue for punctuation in this appealing grammar worksheet.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

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

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

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

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Polish your writing skills with this spooky Halloween writing exercise! Your child will use his imagination to build a scary story from this prompt.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.