In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their 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.

Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

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!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

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

Learn how to use coordinating conjunctions and practice using them in sentences.

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

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

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

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.

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Help students organize their ideas and structure their written responses with the PEEL strategy!

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

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

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

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

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