What turned Louie's frown upside-down? This cute story starter gets your first grader writing a turtle tale.

Learn more about this influential activist and author in this nonfiction reading page.

An acrostic poem is one of the most easy and rewarding ways for younger children to write poetry. Fill in the blanks to spell out "family".

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

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

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Introduce your students to argument writing with this high-interest prompt about homework!

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

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.

Your student can practice reading a unique style of dialogue with this worksheet on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Let your learner's imagination run wild with these creative learning activities designed for learning at home or in the neighborhood.

Your young writer can practice his storytelling skills with this character development worksheet, where he'll outline 4 fictional characters.

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.

What foods do you like to eat in the winter? Answer this question and more with this writing exercise that allows you to practice sentence writing.

Let your child pretend to be a superhero and write a story about his super powers. He'll get some valuable handwriting practice in the process.

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

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

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.

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.

Students will use this fun and colorful revision technique to edit a piece of sample writing.

Sparks students' creative thinking with this Earth Day-themed reflective writing prompt.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.