Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

This volcano writing worksheet is a great story starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

Can your child help Sarah make her writing less repetitive? This sentence combining exercise will help your child, too!

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

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

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

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

Practicing poets can refine their sense of meter and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.

Young historians learn about four pioneering female scientists as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women in Science worksheet.

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.

Write the story to go along with this series of story illustrations with this fun writing prompt.