Learners will gather information about the traditions their families celebrate throughout the year, and pick one tradition to learn more about.

Challenge your students to form a well-reasoned argument with this writing prompt (and rubric!) that's sure to evoke some strong opinions. Students will think about how much homework second graders should be given and make their case in essay form.

Help your learner understand the difference between yesterday, today and tomorrow with a fun and simple journal.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

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

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

Up, up, and away! Kids love to explore new places! Use this awesome travel writing template as a launching point for your students to hone their writing and editing skills.

Get into a mad scientist state of mind with this fun science fiction writing prompt! Your child will imagine and describe a magical potion.

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

This activity encourages your students to write a poem about their favorite animals! Help your students hone their poetry writing skills using this list poem template.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

Teach kindergarteners to be persuasive with their writing. This writing worksheet will help students practice writing a persuasive letter and gives them the opportunity to draw and write supporting details.

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

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

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

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.

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

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

Ask your students to revise Kenny's ice cream paragraph and help him get to the point by combining sentences.

Who doesn't love dreaming about their ideal vacation? Help your young writers share their opinion of the best place to vacation while using this handy paragraph organizer.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Second graders love field trips! Help them share their opinion about the best field trip location while using this handy paragraph organizer.