As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

E-mail is here to stay, but that doesn't mean kids shouldn't learn how to write a friendly letter.Teach your child how to write a letter to a friend.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

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

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

Where does the food in the grocery store come from? Get your student ready to investigate their local grocery store with this fun worksheet and activity.

Children are guided through the process of writing clear, well supported arguments with this writing template.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Whether it’s a poet, inventor, or famous scientist, this worksheet will help learners gather and organize important information.

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

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

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

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

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.