Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Second graders will hone their creative writing skills to come up with fabulous titles of their very own using this fun worksheet! Students will answer questions to help them hone in on the perfect title for their story.

In this nonfiction writing exercise, students will consider whether they are superstitious, what superstitions they might hold, and how they feel about superstitions in general.

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

What if Dorothy from the "Wizard of Oz" had tea with the Mad Hatter? Make writing practice creative and fun for your child with a coloring page story starter!

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

Children are invited to dream up their ideal animal companion in this fun creative writing exercise.

We all know the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs, but no one has heard it from the wolf's point of view!

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

This graphic organizer helps kinds understand the importance of achieving goals and how they can do it step by step.

Where is this rocket ship going? Where did it come from? Your child can create a story and get a step-up by using the word bank as a place to start!

Give your young student more practice with sight words, scissor skills, and one-to-one correspondence with this fun activity!

Learning how use written sources—and avoid plagiarism—is important for any young writer. Practice paraphrasing with this passage about the Ohlone.

The Peter Pan story says that mothers tidy their children's minds at night! Think deep and list what your mind is like before and after mom cleans up.

The legend of Robin Hood was passed down through ballads. After reading about him, you and your child can try writing a ballad of your own!

Gerry is learning how to sew, but she needs some punctuation in her story! Your kid will add life to Gerry's story by adding commas, periods, and quotations.

Second graders will pick their favorite activity from the year to display their narrative writing skills, and the handy rubric makes it easy to provide constructive feedback on all the essential components.

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

Read up on the various number superstitions around the world and why certain numbers are so lucky or unlucky for certain cultures!

Familiarize with the nonfiction genre by thinking about all the nonfiction you read or see each day.

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.

Put proper punctuation into practice with this Baby Sister read-along worksheet.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

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

This persuasive writing prompt asks kids to write a position statement about whether students should or should not have homework over summer vacation.

It’s time to explore plural nouns! With this worksheet, students will practice reading sentences while touching each word, then analyze the plural nouns in the sentences.

In this worksheet, children will write an acrostic poem based on the word "Christmas."

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!