During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Practice basic capitalization rules with this worksheet which asks: to capitalize or not capitalize?

Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

This open-ended worksheet inspires students to research fascinating inventors!

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

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

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

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Can your child help Sarah make her writing less repetitive? This sentence combining exercise will help your child, too!

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

In this worksheet, students will use a topic and follow a structured outline to write their own persuasive paragraph.

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Once students have completed a first draft of narrative writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, compelling details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.