Children learn editor's marks for a variety of grammar, formatting, spelling, and punctuation errors, then practice using them to read and edit a short paragraph.

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.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

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

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.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

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

Uh oh, I spy a typo! This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their writing.

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?

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

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

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

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

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

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

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.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Learn how to use coordinating conjunctions and practice using them in sentences.

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

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

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

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

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