Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

Feeling grateful is what Thanksgiving is all about! Let your first grader express his gratitude with a fun drawing activity.

Use this helpful narrative writing and drawing prompt as a way to assess your students’ writing.

Arrrr you ready for a swashbuckling storytelling session? Use these cards to help your little writer spin a fun tale of pirates on the beach!

Engage your students in argumentative writing by having them share an opinion on a topic that may be near and dear (or not so dear!) to their hearts—homework!

Children will complete six pages of prompts designed to celebrate our home planet with this sweet, easy-to-assemble printable.

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

This story starter featuring an alien leaving to attend a birthday party will spark the imagination and provide writing practice, too!

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

Help your child improve his writing skills with this printable worksheet that asks him to describe what he likes to do at school.

Let your first grader brag a bit about his best skills and enjoyable, after-school activities.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Check out these printable weather postcards, which feature iconic images of each season. Print out these weather postcards for your kindergartener.

Children reflect on the meaning of American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy in this thoughtful writing practice and drawing worksheet.

A polar bear on a beach? Give your silly storyteller a fun way to practice her writing skills with this picture-perfect story starter.

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Help your child identify goals for the new year through drawings and early writing.

With a simple prompt and plenty of blank space to fill, this worksheet is just the thing to get kids' creative writing wheels turning.

Kindergarten students have lots of opinions! Help them write a review of their favorite kind of pizza to share with their classmates.

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

Put your budding reader's creative side to the test with this worksheet that encourages him to come up with an alternate ending to a passage you assign.

What would school be like if you had it your way? Write an opinion piece about what a perfect school would be like.

This colorful worksheet will help kindergarteners develop ideas for persuasive writing about their favorite desserts. The worksheet includes prompts like "I think" and "it is the best because."

Kindergarteners learning about different seasons will like these colorful printable postcards. These weather postcards also offer writing practice.

Make your writing shine with a cover that pops! After students have completed a piece of informational writing, it’s time for them to make engaging covers. This worksheet helps students include all of the key elements—title, picture, and the author's name

One of the best ways to prepare for writing is by examining another author’s work. In this activity, students look closely at a nonfiction text and answer questions about what they find in preparation for writing their own.

In a perfect world, what would your opinion be? Practice writing opinions with good evidence in this wonderful worksheet.

It’s almost the end of the school year! How are your kindergarten students progressing in their writing skills? Use this helpful, open-ended writing prompt to assess your students’ narrative writing.