Each inventive activity on the board inspires children to use their imagination while completing an academic task.

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!

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

Successful peer conferences are a breeze with this narrative writing checklist! Students will review their own writing and a partner's writing, checking for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

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!

Summer writing can start with drawing something fun, or thinking about their favorite parts of warm days. This worksheet is a fun quick-start for ideas.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

Use this template as a starting place for your students to hone their writing and editing skills. First, they'll have to convince someone to take a trip to a place of their choosing, then they'll edit their piece before rewriting.

This research, drawing, and writing worksheet is a fun introduction to informational and science writing.

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.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

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

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Kids will practice their editing skills by adding punctuation to the story. Read about the new girl at school while adding periods, commas, and quotation marks.

Where could this map lead to? Give your beginning writer a fun way to exercise his creativity.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Get ready to revise! Something as simple as adding details can really breathe life into boring sentences! Help students improve their writing as they use details to bring simple sentences to life.

Did you know that kids all over the globe know of the boogeyman? This cautionary tale is told in almost every country!

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and determine a person whom they should thank. Your students will write a thank you note to that person.

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

In this worksheet, children read the article and circle each misspelled word, then correctly spell each one.

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.

This fun acrostic poem for kids reviews simple sight words about the one place they're most familiar with besides home...school!

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.