Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

Use this chart to categorize your chosen superhero’s real and supernatural strengths.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

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.

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

This spooky writing activity will introduce your kid to list-writing: a great way to practice sentences and sequential events.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

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

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

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.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

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

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

Kapow! Wham! Creative writing can be daunting for some kids, but it doesn't have to be! Help excite and inspire your reluctant writers with this fun comic book template.