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

Put a little imagination into writing practice! Kids will imagine up a new animal species and write a descriptive paragraph about it.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Get creative with this Halloween writing exercise. Your child will write a brief paragraph on the topic provided. Think scary thoughts!

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

This Halloween story starter will help your child polish grammar, handwriting and spelling skills. Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween story starter!

Students learn how to support an opinion by addressing opposing viewpoints.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

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

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

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

Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

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

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

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Help your students' confidence in writing persuasive essays grow with this tree graphic organizer. Using this worksheet, students will make connections between opinion, reasons, and examples in their persuasive writing.

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

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

What's going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child's creativity to be complete!

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.