Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

Students read background information about July as National Anti-Boredom Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Children draw on their own experiences to craft a personal narrative in this essay-writing worksheet.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

This open-ended worksheet inspires students to research fascinating inventors!

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

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

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Put your child's punctuation skills to work with this grammar worksheet. Students will add punctuation to complete each sentence.

Being a fish might be fun! Your young writer can write their own under the sea story with this creative writing prompt.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Integrate writing and science with this research graphic organizer in which students research and record information about an invasive species in their local region.

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Children practice reading with a critical eye toward grammar and punctuation in this practice worksheet.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

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

Use this fun creative writing prompt and accompanying rubric to inspire budding authors and help them hone their narrative writing skills.