Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Problem and Solution Practice.

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

Children are invited to reflect on the ways adversity can lead to gratitude in this thoughtful writing prompt.

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

This worksheet gives students practice in topic exploration and elaboration using the catchy concept of an MVP.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Similarities.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Learning verbs is a breeze with this worksheet on verbs that start with L!

Have you ever heard of a half-horse, half-fish? In old Mediterranean folklore these mythical beasts are quite common!

By the time your fourth grader is through with this worksheet, she'll know the capital of Kentucky (Frankfort) and have practiced her cursive.

Is spilling salt really bad luck? Read about the origins of this food superstition; it may not be as odd as you think!

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

Zombies always have such a bad rep. Imagine a day in the life from the point of view of a zombie kid!

This graphic organizer helps kinds understand the importance of achieving goals and how they can do it step by step.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

Would you rather meet Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy?

Learn some mid-west geography with this cursive capitals page that features Madison, Wisconsin.

This worksheet will help kids learn more about state capitals by focusing on the smallest state: Rhode Island!

This fantastically fun worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of Speech that Describe.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

How would you show your love on Valentine's Day? Be as creative as you want with this fun writing prompt.