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

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

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!

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

A.J. and C.K. are at it again! If your child is into comics or graphic novels, they're sure to love this do-it-yourself comic adventure.

It seems that Christmas magic has gone haywire! Be creative and write a story to explain this silly holiday scene.

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

Help your students to show their understanding of operations within word problems.

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

We all know the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs, but no one has heard it from the wolf's point of view!

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

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.

In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

Do you remember your favorite Christmas experience? Get your little writer to practice her creative writing with a fun prompt.

Can your fourth grader write their own comic strip? Let them give it a shot, with this fill-in-the-blank adventure featuring A.J. and C.K.

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

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

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!