The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

These fun dog-themed worksheets will help fifth graders practice their reading comprehension skills.

Recruit your students to do some research! Ask them to use a book or computer to find facts about everyone's favorite arctic creature, the polar bear.

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

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Give your students a chance to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a harrowing experience at a baseball game!

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

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

Share your writing with the world through any of the unique formats from this Writing With Technology Choice Board worksheet!

Punctuation rules for quotation marks get a cartoon makeover with this worksheet!

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Practice argumentative writing with this prompt about making Earth Day a national holiday. 

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

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Got questions about quotations marks? No problem! This worksheet will help your child build his grammar and punctuation skills.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.