Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

Kids learn how to "show" instead of "tell" in their writing.

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

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

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

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

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.