Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

Let your first grader brag a bit about his best skills and enjoyable, after-school activities.

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.

It’s more fun to revise with a partner! After writing personal narratives, have students share their writing with a partner. Partners should identify at least three parts in the narrative where three descriptive details could be added.

In this inventive worksheet, children practice writing from the perspective of everyday items.

Help your students take organized notes on a book, lesson, or video with this helpful worksheet. Kids will record facts they already know, what they learn, and questions they still have. Then they can paste their notes in their composition notebook.

Beware of walking under ladders! Find out the origins of this superstition and why people avoid walking under ladders.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

Here's a chance for your kid to dream up his very own superhero! With this narrative writing worksheet, he'll brainstorm strong verbs and adjectives.

What do you think of your book? Write an opinion and back it up with this worksheet.

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Give your child a head start writing a creative story with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest!

Use this writing tool to teach your students how to write like a historian.

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!

This worksheet will have your child read a brief passage, and then decide on his favorite part.

Imagine what would happen if a crow wanted to be a peacock! Give your little storyteller a fun way to practice their creative writing with this prompt.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

Young historians learn about four pioneering female activists as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women Activists worksheet.

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

In this creative writing worksheet, learners will use their imagination to dream up, write about, and draw an extra-special Easter egg.

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

Get your little storyteller in gear for creative writing! This story starter worksheet is perfect for honing your child's writing skills.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

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

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.