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

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

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.

Whether students are revising handwritten drafts or work that has been written on the computer, this activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic word processing tools.

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

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

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!

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.

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

In this worksheet, children read the article and circle each misspelled word, then correctly spell each one.

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

Children practice reading with a critical eye toward grammar and punctuation in this practice worksheet.

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.

Organizing your thoughts is an essential part of the writing process. It's easy--and fun--with this brainstorming worksheet.

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

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

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

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.

A letter is found in an attic. There's a mystery ahead! Your young author can use their imagination to create a fictional story based on this writing prompt.

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.