Challenge students to come up with arguments and counter-arguments for a controversial topic, whether they agree or not.

Your students will be digging into nonfiction texts in search of the purpose and main idea of a passage.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

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

Zombies always have such a bad rep. Imagine a day in the life from the point of view of a zombie kid!

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

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

Calculating caterpillars and capricious crayfish! Your child will be laughing as he learns some new vocabulary and practices using alliteration.

What will happen to this cave-man? Your 5th grader can decide by writing a creative and exciting story to go with this illustration.

Organizing your thoughts is an essential part of the writing process. It's easy--and fun--with this brainstorming worksheet.

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

The silent film era featured creative storytelling techniques like miming and slapstick. Read and write about silent film era classics like Charlie Chaplin.

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

An evil snowman is on the prowl! What crafty plan will your creative writer come up with to resolve this winter adventure?

What if a zombie horde went up against a viking horde? Your little writer will decide who will be victorious!

This worksheet is designed to provide additional support for students who need extra practice with the basic revising and editing skills.

This 3-page worksheet about opinion writing for kids provides a topic and poses questions to help them organize their thoughts and write their opinion.

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

Imagine you are a reporter in the midst of a zombie outbreak! Bring some spookiness to your child's daily writing journal with this fun prompt.

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

Help students create their own division word problems!

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

History buffs and fiction lovers alike will enjoy learning about legendary writer Mark Twain with this Wild West worksheet!

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

Give your students the questions and organizer to evaluate creative work. Use this worksheet to guide student evaluations of their partner’s creative products.

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

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