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.

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

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

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

Give your students the opportunity to put a friendly letter together!

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for eighth grade!

In this worksheet, children read the article and circle each misspelled word, then correctly spell each one.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Children draw on their own experiences to craft a personal narrative in this essay-writing worksheet.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

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.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

Use this resource to assess your students’ skills when it comes to responding to narrative prompts.

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.

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

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

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

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

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

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

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning