Here's a quick overview of drought and flooding to spark thoughts or conversation with your kids about water.

Learn how to write dialogue with this writing activity that, in the long run, will help you better understand literature.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

What if you discovered a secret passageway in your house! Write a story to tell what you'd do next in that situation.

What do you want to be when you grow up? This cute worksheet will help them learn about supporting the main idea with supporting details with their writing.

This rubric for sixth-grade argument writing covers all of the major Common Core standards in the argument writing strand, including introduction, support, transitions, style, and conclusion.

Children learn editor's marks for a variety of grammar, formatting, spelling, and punctuation errors, then practice using them to read and edit a short paragraph.

What if you showed up to class and the whole school was deserted? Kids will have fun stretching their writing muscles with this April Fools prompt.

Use this assessment and the corresponding rubric to see how well students write personal narratives!

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

Your students will break down a complicated sentence and practice rewording new vocabulary in this worksheet.

Give students another opportunity to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt, featuring a quote by Helen Keller.

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

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

This worksheet is a review of dialogue punctuation. Add quotation marks and commas where they are missing in the sentences about ice cream sundaes.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

After completing Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, help learners connect with the book with this community-based extension activity! 

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

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

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

This worksheet is a fun-filled way to write dialogue about a familiar party staple: balloons. Your 3rd grader creates the conversations between family members.

Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

Learn all about how to write a haiku with this quick and easy worksheet on the structure of this timeless poetry type.

This volcano writing worksheet is a great story starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.