Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

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

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

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

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

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

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.