Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

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

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

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

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

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

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.

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

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

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!