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.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

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

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

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

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

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

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.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

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.

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

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.

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

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

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice basic capitalization rules with this worksheet which asks: to capitalize or not capitalize?

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!