Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words "said," "sad," and "went.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

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

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

Untangle the strands of a story with this spider web graphic organizer!

Use this graphic organizer to help kids differentiate between fact or opinion.

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

Check out these printable weather postcards, which feature iconic images of each season. Print out these weather postcards for your kindergartener.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

The change of seasons affects the kinds of activities we do. Use these printable weather postcards to show how activities change with the seasons.

See how seasons affect the trees with these printable weather postcards. Learn about the weather, and get some writing practice, with these seasonal postcards.

Seasonal weather postcards get kids to learn some vocabulary and identify the seasons. Learn about spring, summer, fall, and winter with weather postcards.

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Children follow the prompts to plan and draft a short opinion piece in this engaging three-page template guide.

Young writers will practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

This set of weather-themed postcards shows your child how to dress seasonally. These postcards help your child identify seasons and improve writing skills.

Introduce friendly letter writing to first and second graders with this labeling worksheet!

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Blast off into the new year with this fun get-to-know-you worksheet for first and second graders!

Analyze a friendly letter with this second-grade reading worksheet!

Goal getters will delight in completing this fun worksheet!

Ready, set, goal with this exciting “All About Me” worksheet!

Exaggeration in storytelling is no big secret. Help your child write a story about himself with this exercise in telling tall tales.

Children will learn how and when to use quotation marks in dialogue and titles, then practice what they have learned.

In this three-page template, students will follow the prompts to create a story map about a memorable moment of joy in their life.