Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

Help students improve peer writing conferences with this reflection exercise. Students will think critically about the feedback they received, discussing the comments they found most and least helpful. Afterwards, have them share their best peer feedback!

Find out the ingredients for a great opinion piece with this simple guide.

Here are a few ways to help your first grader think about winter, by doing a little writing and drawing about the season.

Help your child stretch her imagination to come up with a story starring a cast of underwater characters.

What better time to write letters than the holidays? In this activity, students practice spelling holiday words while writing a letter to a friend or family member.

Have you seen the Easter Bunny? Help your first grader write his very own Easter story. He'll recall some fun memories, plus he'll build writing skills!

Is your kid obsessed with video games? He needs to practice handwriting somehow, so let him imagine what video game he would make and write about it.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

In this illustrated worksheet, children read about four Kwanzaa traditions, then reflect on a holiday tradition of their own.

This story starter featuring an alien pet will provide first graders with some coloring fun and writing practice in one engaging exercise!

This deer is a disaster, but how will his story end? Give your child a head start writing a creative story with this fun coloring page!

This story starter features a traveling alien. Color the picture of the alien inside the spaceship then write a story about his travels on the back of the page

What is your favorite Easter candy? Before you dive into those chocolate treats, write a creative story about the best Easter egg goodies.

What's your favorite holiday? Write five reasons to back up your opinion in this worksheet.

Imagine if Sleeping Beauty were actually a boy! Will Sleeping Handsome be rescued by a beautiful knightess in shining armor?

Write a Christmas story in this holiday-themed writing worksheet.

Oh, no, our prince has a dragon hot on his heels...really, really hot! Let your 1st grade author decide what happens next.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

In this worksheet, students will write a story about their recent history using important storytelling words like first, next, after, and finally. Challenge your students to write an interesting ending!

Hooray, your students have written informational books! But have they also created a table of contents? Through this activity, young authors will consider the different sections of their writing as they add this important element to their books.

Kids plan out personal narrative writing with this worksheet.

Help your students prepare to write an argumentative piece with this writing prompt activity. This worksheet will jumpstart the writing process by having students articulate an opinion and come up with supporting evidence and details.

In order to write informational texts, students need to research their topics. Use this handy notetaker to help students record and think through the new information they are gathering.

Help students practice their handwriting while rewriting these sentences as neatly as possible. Students will also get to practice counting the number of words in each sentence.

Your first graders have been hard at work learning how to write engaging narratives, so now it's time to put their knowledge into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to use key details when writing narrative t

Animate an aquatic tale with these ready-to-print story cards! Use the cards to help you spin your tale.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.