Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

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

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

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.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

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.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Spellers take their skills to the stratosphere with this fun practice worksheet.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

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

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

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

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.