Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

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

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

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

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

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.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

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

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

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

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

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

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

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

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

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

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.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

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