This activity encourages your students to write a poem about their favorite animals! Help your students hone their poetry writing skills using this list poem template.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on a memorable experience from the school year. Get your students to think about how it changed them and what they learned, all while showing off their writing skills.

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Get into a mad scientist state of mind with this fun science fiction writing prompt! Your child will imagine and describe a magical potion.

Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for a clear opinion, supporting reasons, a conclusion, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Put proper punctuation into practice with this Animal Friends read-along story.

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

Students learn how to support an opinion by addressing opposing viewpoints.

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

Finished with the first draft of informational writing? Let this handy checklist guide students through a peer review conference! Students will check for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Too often kids have trouble writing because they can't think of a place to start. Here's a worksheet with a simple prompt that's guaranteed to kids writing.

Get to know your readers with this practice prompt, to help kids learn the importance of writing for an audience.

What do a goofy green frog, bright blue castle, and pretty pink princess have in common? Your first grader will write a fairy tale all about it!

In this worksheet, kids support an opinion about school lunches with reasons.

Children practice gratitude in this fall-themed worksheet that invites them to write down the things they are grateful for.

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

It's never too early to start planning for your future! After imagining what their lives will be like at age 25, students write persuasive letters to their parents asking for their support.

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Let future leaders get a taste of American politics with their very own election book!

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

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.