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.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

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

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

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

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

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

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

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

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

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

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

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

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Help your students' confidence in writing persuasive essays grow with this tree graphic organizer. Using this worksheet, students will make connections between opinion, reasons, and examples in their persuasive writing.

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

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

What's going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child's creativity to be complete!

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.