Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Your first graders have been working hard on honing their narrative writing, so now it's time to put their practice into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to develop a setting when writing narrative texts.

Students will use this fun and colorful revision technique to edit a piece of sample writing.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

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

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

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

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

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Learners will gather information about the traditions their families celebrate throughout the year, and pick one tradition to learn more about.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Take your stand among the comic book greats, and create your own superhero legend!

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

Kids practice argument writing by taking a position on devices in the classroom.

Once students have completed their first draft of informational writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

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

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

With this printable worksheet, students practice writing transition words and identify strong endings for stories.

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

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

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

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

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

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.