When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

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

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

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

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

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

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

Enjoy a sweet writing response page all about Valentine's Day. Kids will get to reflect on an important person in their life.

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

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

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

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

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

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

If your child has ever fantasized about being a pro athlete, he'll enjoy this writing assignment! Characters have stats and stories have supporting details.

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.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

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.

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

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!

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

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.

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.