Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

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

Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

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

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

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

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

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

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

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

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

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

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

In Greek mythology, it was believed that trees had souls called dryads. These female spirits would watch over the forest.

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

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

This critical thinking worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, challenges kids to plain their own campaign tour!

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

Record the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of winter! This winter writing prompt challenges your child to practice sensory description.

Students learn how to support an opinion by addressing opposing viewpoints.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!