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.

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

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

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

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

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

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

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

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

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

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.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

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.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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.

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

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

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

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 template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

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!