Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Your kids will love learning and sharing about animals in this engaging research activity! Engage students in the research process as they prepare to write informational books about animals.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

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

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

Find out if you've got a little haiku master on your hands with our haiku worksheet. A simple poetry form, a haiku is perfect for beginning writers.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

This language arts assessment will provide insight into your students' ability to write an animal report.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

A day of fishing is interrupted by a giant sea monster! What happens next? This writing prompt will help your student stretch his imagination.

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

Prepare students for reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor by accessing and building background knowledge!

Here's a pretty silly writing prompt. How do a bird from the arctic and a bird from a tropical island meet up one day? Your child can decide!

Give students another chance to think deeply and hone their writing skills with this relatable writing prompt based on a Babe Ruth quote.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, encourage students to examine the novel's setting with this creative writing worksheet! 

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a peculiar find at the beach following a storm!

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

It's time to play with sentences! Have a little fun talking about recess as you fill in the blanks to complete this simple story.

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

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

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

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.