This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Encourage learners to engage in research by offering them this Research Graphic Organizer to help guide their explorations and record their findings.

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

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension 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.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

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

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

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

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

In this paragraph editing page, kids will have a great time editing this love letter from a Victorian gentleman.

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about school dress codes!

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

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

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.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

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

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

What if you could make up your own animal species? Your child will have fun as she uses her imagination to hone her writing skills.

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

Boost creativity with these sentence prompts! Kids will practice storytelling with the help of some sentence starters.

Practice sentence writing with these prompts, perfect for struggling writers.

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.