After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Being a fish might be fun! Your young writer can write their own under the sea story with this creative writing prompt.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Integrate writing and science with this research graphic organizer in which students research and record information about an invasive species in their local region.

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!

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

Writers will practice crafting a story around setting with this open-ended writing prompt.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

Use this fun creative writing prompt and accompanying rubric to inspire budding authors and help them hone their narrative writing skills.

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.

Practice sentence writing with these prompts, perfect for struggling writers.

Children tap into their natural abilities in this worksheet that invites them to make a persuasive written argument!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Where does the food in the grocery store come from? Get your student ready to investigate their local grocery store with this fun worksheet and activity.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

It’s fun to dream about the future! In this activity, students write a persuasive paragraph about why their dream career is a good choice.

These beautiful story cards are a great way to help your child build confidence in her speaking and storytelling skills.

This spooky writing activity will introduce your kid to list-writing: a great way to practice sentences and sequential events.

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a harrowing experience at a baseball game!

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.