Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

Stretch those writing skills with this "stretch a sentence" activity! Young writers will learn to expand on an idea by adding more details to a sentence.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Learners practice editing dialogue for punctuation in this appealing grammar worksheet.

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Punctuation Pig offers a lesson in punctuating dialogue in this playful grammar worksheet.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

If your child needs some punctuation practice, give him a challenge with a quick quotation marks quiz!