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

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

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

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

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

Uh oh, I spy a typo! This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their writing.

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.

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?

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.