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

Your student can practice reading a unique style of dialogue with this worksheet on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

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

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

If your child needs some punctuation practice, give him a challenge with a quick quotation marks quiz!

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

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.

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

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

This worksheet is a fun-filled way to write dialogue about a familiar party staple: balloons. Your 3rd grader creates the conversations between family members.

Challenge your kids to translate LOL into an academic sentence! Give your students extra practice rewriting online comments so that they fit the academic setting.

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

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.

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

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

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

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.