Is the sleeping dragon a watchdog or a pet? Your fifth grader can write her own story with this fun writing prompt.

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

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.

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

This writing exercise integrates both the construction of a friendly letter and the labeling of standard letter components.

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

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

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

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

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.

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

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.

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

Ready to add some magic to the standard creative writing process?

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Take a stab at haiku poetry with this free-form haiku writing worksheet. All you need is imagination and a pen!

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.