Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Students will use this fun and colorful revision technique to edit a piece of sample 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.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

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

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

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

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

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

Kids practice argument writing by taking a position on devices in the classroom.

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

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

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

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Challenge your kids to translate LOL into an academic sentence! Give your students extra practice rewriting online comments so that they fit the academic setting.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

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

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.