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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Researching, both online and offline, is a skill your student will find useful in any class. This writing worksheet gives her an interesting topic to research.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Use this graphic organizer to introduce your students to a root word or affix of your choice.

Got a video game enthusiast on your hands? Give them a fun alternative with this creative writing sheet, where they'll get to make up their own video game!

What's happening in this scene? It's up to your creative kid to fill the speech bubbles.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Most people use electronics every day, from cell phones to computers to microwaves. But does your child know where electronics come from?

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

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.

Students will have fun matching synonyms with this vocabulary memory game.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

This cursive practice page reinforces geography skills by teaching kids the capital of Indiana: Indianapolis!

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

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

What would happen if Baba Yaga had a hoarding intervention? Get to know a famous and eerie Russian folktale with this creative writing exercise.

Get ready to ring in the New Year with a fun writing prompt, all about New Year's resolutions. This is a good way to build paragraph-writing skills.

All of these awesome words begin with "A" and describe astounding nouns! Help your fourth grader recognize adjectives that start with the letter "A".

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: I Can Use Context Clues!

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.