What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

Kiss “The End” goodbye! This activity gets students to practice using more interesting story endings.

Get to know your readers with this practice prompt, to help kids learn the importance of writing for an audience.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

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

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

Break out all of your informational books about sea turtles to help your kindergarteners learn even more interesting facts about this amazing sea creature!

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Write your own Abraham Lincoln biography using a simple essay template.

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Every paragraph is made up of a topic sentence and supporting sentences to go with it! Learn the basics of paragraph writing and contextual reading.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

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

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

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.