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!

What do you want to be when you grow up? This cute worksheet will help them learn about supporting the main idea with supporting details with their 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.

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

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.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

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

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

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.

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

"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!

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.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

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

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

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.

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

Your students will break down a complicated sentence and practice rewording new vocabulary in this worksheet.