Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

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.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

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

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

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

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

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

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

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

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

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

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

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

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.

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

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

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

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

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

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.

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.