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.

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.

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

This volcano writing worksheet is a great story starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

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.

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.

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

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."

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

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.

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.

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.

Practice sentence writing with these prompts, perfect for struggling writers.

Children tap into their natural abilities in this worksheet that invites them to make a persuasive written argument!

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this resource to assess your students’ skills when it comes to responding to narrative prompts.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Where does the food in the grocery store come from? Get your student ready to investigate their local grocery store with this fun worksheet and activity.