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

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

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

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

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!

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

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

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

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.