This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Give your students some practice writing an informational essay about the American Revolution!

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

Send your congratulations to a friend with this letter-writing template for first and second graders!

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

Reminisce on a fun summer with this second-grade writing worksheet!

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.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

Don’t be scared of writing! Tell a story about a scarecrow in this fun autumnal activity!

Hop into writing with this colorful spring worksheet!

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

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

Think about what you want to improve about yourself as you start the new school year with this writing prompt!

What unusual item could your character find in the library? Find out with this fun writing activity!

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

This worksheet will help your first grader generate ideas for writing.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

There’s an ocean of sensory details you can use in your writing!

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!