Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

What was the very first toy you played with when you were a baby? Answer this question and more by filling in the blanks to answer the questions about toys.

Practice proper punctuation with this read-along worksheet.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

The silverback gorilla is a special animal. This magnificent male is part of an endangered species. Complete this sheet to learn all about this gentle giant.

Help your 2nd grader compare and contrast their own traits to their favorite book character's traits with this graphic organizer.

Write your own Abraham Lincoln biography using a simple essay template.

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Your students will have fun developing the setting of a story with this graphic organizer.

Here's a quick overview of drought and flooding to spark thoughts or conversation with your kids about water.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!

Inspire learners' creativity with this fun, seasonal writing prompt about a St. Patrick's Day-themed adventure!

Hold on to your extra eyes and slimy green ooze -- this isn't your average creative writing prompt!

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

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

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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

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.

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.