Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

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

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Write your own Declaration of Independence in this creative writing worksheet!

Write the story to go along with this series of story illustrations with this fun writing prompt.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

In this exercise your students will color code the key components of an example informative paragraph.

Untangle the strands of a story with this spider web graphic organizer!

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

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

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

A soccer ball flies toward the goalie, but what happens next? Let your budding writer create his own story, using this picture prompt as a starting point.

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.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Hold on to your extra eyes and slimy green ooze -- this isn't your average creative writing prompt!

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Personal narrative writing is all about you! Get kids thinking and writing about their personal experiences and how they felt about them.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

If your child likes to rhyme, have him try this fun style by using the format of poet Edward Lear.

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.

This worksheet asks students to find the transition words and to use them in their own sentences.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.