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Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

Main ideas and Details

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Persuasive Writing Prompt Cards

Use this handy worksheet to help your students (and you!) keep track of their writing goals. Refer to the goals during writing workshop conferences, and be sure to have students add to them and revise them as needed.

My Writing Goals

Dive into the magic of storytelling with this diverse series of writing prompts. Each prompt is centered around a funny illustration and they include different genres such as poetry, journalism and more!

Creative Writing

Give your novice writer a fun way to practice sentence writing with these sentence starter prompts.

Descriptive Writing Prompts

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

Household Chores: Opinion Writing Exercise

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

Informational Writing

Thanksgiving is a special time of year to get children talking about being thankful. Use these writing prompts to explore three different types of writing on the same topic.

Thankful for Thanksgiving Writing

What would your perfect Christmas tree look like? Have your beginning writer practice descriptive writing to answer this fun Christmas creative writing prompt!

Christmas Tree Writing Prompt

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Halloween Writing Prompts #2

Young writers will reflect on what the holiday season means to them with this seasonal writing prompt.

Holiday Writing Prompt

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

Naming Narratives and Nonfiction

Your first graders have been working hard on honing their narrative writing, so now it's time to put their practice into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to develop a setting when writing narrative texts.

Narrative Writing: Describe Setting

In this writing exercise, children write a descriptive paragraph or two about the colors that surround them in autumn.

Thanksgiving Writing Prompt #7

What adventures can a reindeer, candy cane, and a snowman embark on? Let’s find out! In this writing lesson, students will write a Christmas-themed narrative incorporating characters, setting, problem, and solution. 


Christmas Adventure Writing

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

Journal Writing Task Cards #1

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

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

Friendship Writing Prompt

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.

Recess Opinion Writing

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

Christmas Creative Writing

Children use their creative writing skills with this Thanksgiving prompt.

Thanksgiving Writing Prompt #3

Get creative with this playful writing prompt that's perfect for Halloween-time or for kids who love the supernatural.

Ghost Writing Prompt

Get started with writing and explaining great opinions with these words.

Sentence Starters: Writing Opinions

Would you rather travel through time or travel through space? Explore limitless frontiers while writing science fiction.

Writing Science Fiction

This worksheet will help your first grader generate ideas for writing.

Tell a Story: Summer Adventure

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Writing Prompt: Change

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

Oreo Persuasive Writing

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Argument Writing: Counter-Arguments

Students love comic books! Channel their excitement for this fun genre and get their creative writing juices flowing.  By writing their own comic strips, students will be practicing composing, sequencing, and using dialogue.


BAM! POW! Comic Strip Writing

What happens when Medusa tries to visit the salon? Have some storytelling fun with this wacky writing prompt!

Medusa Writing Prompt

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