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

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

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

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

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.

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

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

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

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

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

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

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

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

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.