If you're stuck at home this summer, try these fun pretend postcards instead for an exercise in creative writing!

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

Give your students the opportunity to conduct an interview with a family member or loved one to learn about their meaningful traditions. They will ask questions about fall traditions, finding out about clothing, food, location, and the people involved. Th

Students read background information about April as National Volunteer Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Most people use electronics every day, from cell phones to computers to microwaves. But does your child know where electronics come from?

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

Students read background information about June as National Great Outdoors Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Imagine what you could do if you could fly! Practice your handwriting and creativity with these sentence starters.

In this creative writing prompt, students will imagine what it would be like to turn into a werewolf at the stroke of midnight every Halloween. 

Young historians learn about four pioneering female athletes as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women in Sports worksheet.

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

Practice basic capitalization rules with this worksheet which asks: to capitalize or not capitalize?

The California condor has been brought back from the brink of extinction. This worksheet will help your little bird lover learn all about the condor.

What lurks inside this spooky house? Your 5th grader can invent her own scary story based on this haunting illustration!

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, give students a chance to nurture their imaginations with this creative extension activity!

What will happen to this cave-man? Your 5th grader can decide by writing a creative and exciting story to go with this illustration.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

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

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

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

Fill in the speech and thought bubbles as a guy and girl talk on the phone.

Take notes on peer conversations as students explain points that support their answers.

Children write about their favorite summer memory with this writing template, using their five senses to describe what happened.