Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

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

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

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

"The witch was on her broom with her..." Where will your child take the story from here? This Halloween story starter is a great way to get your first grader's wheels turning and creative juices flowing.

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

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

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.

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

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

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.

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

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 guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

This worksheet walks students through the three main formatting strategies writers can use when organizing and pacing their narratives.

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.

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

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.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!