Show your fifth-grader it's possible to make your own comic rather than just read them. He'll work on creative writing while he's at it!

On a dark and story night... Spookify your storytelling time with some scary story cards!

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

Give your students the opportunity to conduct an interview with a family member or loved one to learn about their meaningful traditions. They will ask questions about fall traditions, finding out about clothing, food, location, and the people involved. Th

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

If your kid loves the book Bridge to Terabithia, he might enjoy its movie adaptation. He'll have fun reading and watching while honing his analytical skills.

A wonderful way for future voters to express their freedom and flex their writing skills is by penning a letter to a leader.

Invite learners to research Passover and record their findings using this appealing research template!

Recruit your students to do some research! Ask them to use a book or computer to find facts about everyone's favorite arctic creature, the polar bear.

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

In this creative writing prompt, students will imagine what it would be like to turn into a werewolf at the stroke of midnight every Halloween. 

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Get into the spirit of Halloween, and write about your scariest experience! This writing prompt is a fun way to build grammar and vocabulary skills.

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells out a word or message! Give your child a fun challenge with this acrostic "mother" poem starter.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

Let future leaders get a taste of American politics with their very own election book!

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Young writers can elevate their writing through wise word choices!

What lurks inside this spooky house? Your 5th grader can invent her own scary story based on this haunting illustration!

Did you ever get bad luck from seeing a black cat cross your path? Maybe the superstition is not as scary as you thought!

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Use this writing tool to teach your students how to write like a historian.

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.