Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

A strong hook will grab a reader's attention and pull them into your story! This organizer will help young writers try out different ideas and decide on the strongest hook for their personal narrative.

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.

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

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

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

Kindergarteners will write about their favorite foods with this journal worksheet. This activity will develop your students' writing and brainstorming skills while challenging them to fill up the entire page with words!

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

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

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.

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

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Budding essayists will practice organizing their ideas using the template and prompts on this worksheet.

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

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

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Give your students practice using their narrative writing skills with this fun worksheet.

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.