Children learn editor's marks for a variety of grammar, formatting, spelling, and punctuation errors, then practice using them to read and edit a short paragraph.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

By writing his own story in this worksheet, your child can learn to "fill in the blanks" of reading comprehension.

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

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

Uh oh, I spy a typo! This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their 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?

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

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

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

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

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!