Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

It’s fun to think about the future! In this activity, students write a persuasive paragraph about what they need to learn in order to make their dreams come true.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

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

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

"The witch was on her broom with her..." Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader's wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

Become a more powerful writer with this worksheet about sentence structure created for third and fourth graders!

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Analyze a friendly letter with this second-grade reading worksheet!

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

What's going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child's creativity to be complete!

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.