Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet! 

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Frederick Douglass, an influential African American writer and abolitionist.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

Use this resource to support your students in discussing and writing a first person narrative. They will read a paragraph written as a third person narrative, and they will describe it as a first person narrative using a graphic organizer.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Learn to write like your favorite authors in this creative writing exercise for fourth and fifth graders!

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.