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

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

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

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!

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

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!

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

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.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

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

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

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

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

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.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

In this paragraph editing page, kids will have a great time editing this love letter from a Victorian gentleman.

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

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of American colonists and report back to the king himself in this creative worksheet!

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

Is the sleeping dragon a watchdog or a pet? Your fifth grader can write her own story with this fun writing prompt.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Help your beginning writer become an excellent essay-writer with this helpful proofreading practice sheet.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.