Recruit your students to do some research! Ask them to use a book or computer to find facts about everyone's favorite arctic creature, the polar bear.

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

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

Finish your readthrough of Louis Sachar’s Holes with this essential discussion guide!

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

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

This rubric for sixth-grade argument writing covers all of the major Common Core standards in the argument writing strand, including introduction, support, transitions, style, and conclusion.

Assess your students’ narrative writing skills with this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 6th grade.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Once students understand angle basics, challenge them to find missing angles in this exercise!

Use this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 7th grade to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

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

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

Would you rather travel through time or travel through space? Explore limitless frontiers while writing science fiction.

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Kindergarteners learning about different seasons will like these colorful printable postcards. These weather postcards also offer writing practice.

Here's a quick overview of drought and flooding to spark thoughts or conversation with your kids about water.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

Would you rather meet Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy?

Budding writers can find their inner zen and build creative writing skills by practicing some haiku poetry.