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.

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

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.

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

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.

Give your students practice using their narrative writing skills with this fun worksheet.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Beginning readers track when they read by touching each word. In this worksheet, students will touch each word as they read.

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

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

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

After reading the classic Aesop fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," students will use their imaginations to compose their own introductions using one of the most common story hooks (fact, question, description, statement, or sound).

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

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!