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?

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

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?

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

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 comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

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

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!