Engage your students in argumentative writing by having them share an opinion on a topic that may be near and dear (or not so dear!) to their hearts—homework!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

This story starter featuring an alien leaving to attend a birthday party will spark the imagination and provide writing practice, too!

Sort out your vowel sounds with this fun worksheet. First say the name of each picture out loud. Can you tell which words make the long "U" sound?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Help your child improve his writing skills with this printable worksheet that asks him to describe what he likes to do at school.

Help students improve peer writing conferences with this reflection exercise. Students will think critically about the feedback they received, discussing the comments they found most and least helpful. Afterwards, have them share their best peer feedback!

Let your first grader brag a bit about his best skills and enjoyable, after-school activities.

It’s time to make some holiday wishes! Help students make their holidays happy by thinking about three wishes they have for the season. Your young writers will use the help of a word bank to write out their wishes in this holiday-themed activity.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Introduce your child to a classic Aesop's fable, re-told in a series of fun coloring pages! Your child will be honing her reading skills as she colors.

Help students turn instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a cohesive piece of procedural writing. Using transition words is the key to successful how-to writing!

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.

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.

Use these card templates to incorporate more opportunities for gratitude in your day-to-day life by sharing what you are thankful for with your friends and family.

Help students see the connection between plural Y endings and present tense endings for verbs ending in Y. Use this worksheet to practice!

Get ready for a healthy and nutritious start to the day, with consonant blends! This activity will help your child learn important consonant sounds.

A fun game for students, book bingo can either be played as a game to diversify student reading or as a way to have students begin interacting and talking about the types of reading materials they enjoy.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

There's nothing better than a mug of hot chocolate! Your child can work on their writing skills as they describe how to make a great cup of cocoa.

Have some phonics fun in the word construction zone! Sound out each word to figure out the beginning and ending letters.

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

Words that end with Y can be tricky, but that's no reason to cry! This fun worksheet combines reading and coloring to help your young students learn how a Y at the end of a word can make an I or an E sound.

Children are introduced to the life-changing practice of expressing gratitude with this sweet mini-book.

Using sight words, help your beginning reader master words that begin with the letter "K". He'll strengthen his vocabulary and spelling as he goes!

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.