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

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

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.

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

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.

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.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

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.

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.

How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

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

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

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

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.