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

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

Your young writer can practice his storytelling skills with this character development worksheet, where he'll outline 4 fictional characters.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

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.