Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for a clear opinion, supporting reasons, a conclusion, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

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.

What do you do at school every day? Help your child sort out her school routine and write it down, from beginning, to middle to end!

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

Is that polar bear eating an ice cream cone? Get your child into a creative writing mood with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest!

Can you name what trick this skateboarder is doing? Help your second grader build his creative writing skills with this beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

This worksheet gives students practice in topic exploration and elaboration using the catchy concept of an MVP.

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.

Have you seen the Easter Bunny? Help your first grader write his very own Easter story. He'll recall some fun memories, plus he'll build writing skills!

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

How do these sentences fit together? Learn a bit about story context and comprehension with this fun matching activity.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

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!

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

Give your students practice planning purposeful writing!

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

What is Georgie Porgie up to? Build phonics and comprehension skills with this nursery rhyme worksheet.

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.