You've never heard a ghost story like The Phantom Knight of Vandal Camp! Discover the scares, if you dare, behind this tale before writing the ending.

In nonfiction, bolding and underlining are frequently used to help words stand out. In fiction, authors can use ALL CAPS to add emphasis to a character’s voice.

Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

Keep a record of friends you meet over the summer with this impromptu address book to fill with fun facts about all the friends you make this summer.

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Encourage your fourth grader to know her state capitals with this worksheet, featuring the least populated capital in the country: Montpelier, Vermont.

Des Moines is one of the trickier state capitals to spell, but practice makes perfect in this worksheet.

Children are invited to plan their ideal Thanksgiving in this creative writing exercise.

Fourth graders are learning more about United States geography this year, and may even be challenged to name the state capitals.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

Help your students get to know a common prefix with this great graphic organizer.

These cut-and-paste cards provide students with steps for writing the introduction, body, and conclusion parts of an informational text.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

What if Dorothy's house had landed in New York City instead of Oz?

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Challenge your students to refine their thinking and explanations!

What ten essentials would you pack in case of an emergency? Help kids think about disaster preparedness from zombie apocalypse point of view!

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Here's to the Negative Nancy in all of us! Your child will help choose a negative adjective to describe some bad musical performers and build vocabulary.

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

Your budding writer can review the parts of speech with this worksheet on sentence diagrams. He'll get a better grasp on sentence structure as he goes.