Prepare students for reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Learn how to use coordinating conjunctions and practice using them in sentences.

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

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of American colonists and report back to the king himself in this creative worksheet!

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

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

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

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

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.

Learn step by step how to create a report! Research facts about camels, complete the sentences, then use the sentences to create a report about camels.

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.

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

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.

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about fall break requirements!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!