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

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Kids practice argument writing by taking a position on devices in the classroom.

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

Kindergarteners will write about their favorite foods with this journal worksheet. This activity will develop your students' writing and brainstorming skills while challenging them to fill up the entire page with words!

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

With this printable worksheet, students practice writing transition words and identify strong endings for stories.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Budding essayists will practice organizing their ideas using the template and prompts on this worksheet.

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

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.

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.