Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

"The witch was on her broom with her..." Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader's wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

What is the boy in his swim trunks asking the boy in his rain coat? Use your imagination and write down questions the two boys may be asking each other!

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

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.

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

Use this graphic organizer to help kids differentiate between fact or opinion.

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

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

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

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

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

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.