Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Learners will gather information about the traditions their families celebrate throughout the year, and pick one tradition to learn more about.

Once students have completed their first draft of informational writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

Put proper punctuation into practice with these read-along stories.

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

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!

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

This pink rabbit needs some punctuation! Kids will add pauses, quotes, and exclamations by adding the proper punctuation to this story.

If your child is struggling with writing composition, help him spark his imagination with a fun creative writing prompt.

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.

Ready for sentence building liftoff! This worksheet will help your second grader build his creative writing skills and practice forming sentences.

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

Once students have completed a first draft of narrative writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, compelling details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

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!

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

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Practice proper punctuation with this read-along worksheet.

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!

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Follow Chuck on vacation by looking at the pictures he took! What is he doing in each picture? Use your imagination and creativity to write captions for each.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Who doesn't love a good checklist? This handy worksheet can help budding letter writers make sure they include all the parts of a friendly letter.

What do want to be when you grow up? This worksheet gives kids the space to represent their answer to that question through drawing and writing.

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

What is this funny dinosaur doing? Help your second grader rearrange the jumbled words, and add in the missing words to make a complete sentence.

Get into a mad scientist state of mind with this fun science fiction writing prompt! Your child will imagine and describe a magical potion.

Young editors will read "Josie's Garden" and add commas, periods, and quotation marks. Practice with punctuation perfectly in this punctuation worksheet.