Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

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

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

Break out all of your informational books about sea turtles to help your kindergarteners learn even more interesting facts about this amazing sea creature!

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

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

Help your preschoolers learn about storytelling using common sight words.

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

A soccer ball flies toward the goalie, but what happens next? Let your budding writer create his own story, using this picture prompt as a starting point.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

The silverback gorilla is a special animal. This magnificent male is part of an endangered species. Complete this sheet to learn all about this gentle giant.

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about allowing teachers to hold classes outdoors!

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Write your own Abraham Lincoln biography using a simple essay template.

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Celebrate your successes with a fun writing prompt! Your child will have fun using her imagination and honing her writing skills with this writing prompt.

Your students will have fun developing the setting of a story with this graphic organizer.

Here's a quick overview of drought and flooding to spark thoughts or conversation with your kids about water.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

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

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

Inspire learners' creativity with this fun, seasonal writing prompt about a St. Patrick's Day-themed adventure!

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Hold on to your extra eyes and slimy green ooze -- this isn't your average creative writing prompt!

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

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

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

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.