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

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

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.

Partners will work together to complete this worksheet as they participate in peer editing.

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.

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?

Research your favorite author, then map out biographical details on an idea web.

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

Encourage students to share their writing with classmates and receive feedback to improve their writing with this peer publishing worksheet.

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

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

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

Help your students to show their understanding of operations within word problems.

In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

By writing his own story in this worksheet, your child can learn to "fill in the blanks" of reading comprehension.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.