Do you avoid stepping on cracks in the road? Have some fun exploring a common childhood superstition!

Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

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

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

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

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

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

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