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

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

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

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

Take notes of student peer conversations all in one document!

Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this fun worksheet.

What makes a story or picture interesting? Details! Young writers and illustrators can use this worksheet to practice making their own writing even better!

All writing needs support! Give your young writer some structure with this supporting statements activity.

Using fun materials can make following along as an adult reads much more exciting. In this activity, students will point out each word with different items to practice one-to-one correspondence.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

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 are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

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!

This simple acrostic template for Earth Day makes it easy for kids of all abilities to pen a poem about the planet.

Learners will love thinking and writing creatively with this fun, seasonal writing prompt inspired by St. Patrick's Day!

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

If you could choose just one word to best describe yourself, what word would it be?

Write an informational essay about a summer topic like vacations, swimming pools, or outside games. Inspire your students to plan their essay with this summer-themed graphic organizer.

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

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!

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.

Inspire learners' creativity with this fun and seasonal writing prompt about a peculiar engraving!

Help students turn instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a cohesive piece of procedural writing. Using transition words is the key to successful how-to writing!

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.