Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Can your child help Sarah make her writing less repetitive? This sentence combining exercise will help your child, too!

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

In this worksheet, students will use a topic and follow a structured outline to write their own persuasive paragraph.

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

Once students have completed a first draft of narrative writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, compelling details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

There are so many amazing animals found in the ocean! Help your students decide on one animal to write and draw about as they practice their writing skills.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

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

It's raining, it's pouring... This cute and colorful printable gets learners thinking about their favorite rainy day activities.

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Children learn to structure a paragraph in this hands-on writing organization exercise.

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Young writers will practice the challenging skill of writing a strong concluding paragraph.

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

How far can you stretch these sentences? Give your young writer a creativity boost with this clever sentence practice sheet.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!