Calculating caterpillars and capricious crayfish! Your child will be laughing as he learns some new vocabulary and practices using alliteration.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Uh oh! Either way you're in trouble with this scary and thrilling creative writing prompt.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

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

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Imagine if the classic Christmas story, The Nutcracker, was actually a Halloween story! How would that change the way the story was told?

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

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

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Can you spot the yeti? Help your child learn about a famous mythical creature with this page all about the yeti!