Kids learn how to "show" instead of "tell" in their writing.

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

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

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

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

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.