Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

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

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

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

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

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

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

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their 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

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

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.

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?

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

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.

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

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

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

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

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.

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

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Help students organize their ideas and structure their written responses with the PEEL strategy!

You decide what's happening on the page by drawing and writing it in!

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

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.