There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Help your students plan a well-supported persuasive letter with this planning document.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

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.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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

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

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

A letter is found in an attic. There's a mystery ahead! Your young author can use their imagination to create a fictional story based on this writing prompt.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun and seasonal writing prompt about a mysterious letter!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Send a letter to your future self with this back-to-school writing prompt!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

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 creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

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.

Learn to write like your favorite authors in this creative writing exercise for fourth and fifth graders!

Imagine you find a time machine that sends you 200 years into the future—what would you tell your present-day self?

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

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

Hooray! You can learn to use interjections in your own writing with this engaging worksheet for fifth through eighth graders!

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

Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

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

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.