A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

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

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

Children reflect on the meaning of American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy in this thoughtful writing practice and drawing worksheet.

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

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

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.

Follow Chuck on vacation by looking at the pictures he took! What is he doing in each picture? Use your imagination and creativity to write captions for each.

Acrostic poems are a fun, easy introduction to poetry. Learn about what makes a good acrostic poem and try writing one about school!

Use this imaginative prompt to help your reluctant writer use his creativity to build sentences.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

The horned lizard has a scary exterior but a gentle personality. Your little student can learn about this North American lizard with this worksheet.

Students read background information about January as National Hobby Month and then respond to reflective questions.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

This worksheet, which reads like riddles, will expose your learners to important abolitionists in the African American community.

Who doesn't love a good checklist? This handy worksheet can help budding letter writers make sure they include all the parts of a friendly letter.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Match these famous movie quotes with their films! Some of these famous movie quotes from classics, and others are from new favorites for a fun challenge.

It's ninjas vs zombies! Who will win? Flex your imagination to create a funny or crazy story to answer this writing prompt.

What do want to be when you grow up? This worksheet gives kids the space to represent their answer to that question through drawing and writing.

Instead of reading the story and then reviewing it, kids have to put this mixed-up story back together in order to understand what's going on.