As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Help your child learn about sensory language as they describe an experience.

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Fill in the speech and thought bubbles as a guy and girl talk on the phone.

Take notes on peer conversations as students explain points that support their answers.

Practice bringing sensory words to life!

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Get to know your readers with this practice prompt, to help kids learn the importance of writing for an audience.

Paraphrasing while avoiding plagiarism is an important skill to master. Help your child practice paraphrasing this passage about the gray wolf.

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Match these famous movie quotes with their films! Some of these famous movie quotes from classics, and others are from new favorites for a fun challenge.

This worksheet is a review of dialogue punctuation. Add quotation marks and commas where they are missing in the sentences about ice cream sundaes.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

Have you ever heard of a half-horse, half-fish? In old Mediterranean folklore these mythical beasts are quite common!