Your first graders have been hard at work learning how to write engaging narratives, so now it's time to put their knowledge into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to use key details when writing narrative t

Students will get to track their own learning on a topic using this graphic organizer. First they'll write down thoughts and questions they have about a topic. After reading, they'll record their new thoughts and consider how their responses have changed.

Help your students take organized notes on a book, lesson, or video with this helpful worksheet. Kids will record facts they already know, what they learn, and questions they still have. Then they can paste their notes in their composition notebook.

This poetry worksheet is sure to get your child's creative juices flowing! Students will seek to write their own limerick by filling in blank spaces for nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Then they'll add an illustration to complete their poem!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

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

This envelope template can help aspiring letter writers address their letters. Your students will love cutting out, folding, and addressing their own envelopes in this hands-on activity!

Give your first grader a fun coloring page that doubles as a creative writing activity! She'll use her imagination to create a story for the picture.

Students will write about their favorite kind of pizza!

Allow your child to dream about what goes on high over her head with this story starter worksheet that encourages your child to think about life in space.

Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Second graders love field trips! Help them share their opinion about the best field trip location while using this handy paragraph organizer.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Teaching kids what's recyclable and what's not is more important than ever. Give your kids the recycling lowdown with this activity-packed printable.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

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

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

In this worksheet, kindergarteners will read the funny story all about a dinosaur and draw pictures to represent what they have read.

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

A polar bear on a beach? Give your silly storyteller a fun way to practice her writing skills with this picture-perfect story starter.

Your kids will love learning and sharing about animals in this engaging research activity! Engage students in the research process as they prepare to write informational books about animals.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Your students have been working hard all year on their narrative writing skills. Now it's time to see just how much they've learned! Assess your students' growth with this narrative writing prompt and rubric.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Show kids how to sort fact from fiction with this worksheet.

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