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

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.

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.

In this three-page template, students will follow the prompts to create a story map about a memorable moment of joy in their life.

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 they’ve done in the summer

Imagine you find a time machine that sends you 200 years into the future—what would you tell your present-day self?

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

In this simple reading comprehension exercise, learners will learn the difference between realism and fantasy, along with clues for spotting each.

Help your preschooler understand there are different types of text to be read in books, and practice some handwriting on some big words.

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Hone writing skills by identifying opinion vs fact.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Get caught up in the drama of "Casey at the Bat" with this reader's theater script.

Children will use their imaginations to write a fanciful holiday story in this creative writing worksheet.

Children will use their imaginations to write and illustrate a short nonfiction essay in this creative writing exercise.

You can introduce your child to the Christmas story with this angel Gabriel coloring page.

Young writers get some hands-on character development practice with this epic writing prompt.

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Young writers will enjoy responding to an imaginative prompt about a pet dinosaur.

Children will enjoy dreaming up their dream Valentine's Day gift in this simple drawing and writing prompt.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

Young writers practice crafting thoughtful, compelling paragraphs with this persuasive writing worksheet.