Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Instead of reading the story and then reviewing it, kids have to put this mixed-up story back together in order to understand what's going on.

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

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Each inventive activity on the board inspires children to use their imagination while completing an academic task.

Monster footprints in a dark forest sets the scene for a super scary story! This picture prompt will help your child practice creative writing.

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Young writers will practice the challenging skill of writing a strong concluding paragraph.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

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

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

Being a fish might be fun! Your young writer can write their own under the sea story with this creative writing prompt.

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

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

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

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of the Pilgrims and report back to the Queen herself about life in the New England colonies.

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

Help your students plan a well-supported persuasive letter with this planning document.

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Your young writer can practice his storytelling skills with this character development worksheet, where he'll outline 4 fictional characters.

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

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.