If your family owns a cat, this is a perfect time to make the furry family member the star while your child practices penmanship (without even knowing it).

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Find out other students' opinions about dessert with this tasty worksheet!

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

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.

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!

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.

Practice your super strong writing skills to defend your opinion about who the best superhero is.

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Get started with writing and explaining great opinions with these words.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

Having interviewed their classmates, students will practice their expository writing skills describing what they learned in complete sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

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

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Young writers take on the perspective of a turkey in this creative writing exercise.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Practice bringing sensory words to life!

Have you ever heard of a pig with a sense of fashion? Challenge your child's creativity with this fun story starter.

Practice retelling familiar stories using this detail-oriented worksheet!

A strong hook will grab a reader's attention and pull them into your story! This organizer will help young writers try out different ideas and decide on the strongest hook for their personal narrative.

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

A cowboy meets a dragon but how does it end, and how did it start? Your young story teller can decide!

Help kids get familiar with the process of writing a thank you note, so they'll never complain about writer's block again.

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.