Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Partners will work together to complete this worksheet as they participate in peer editing.

Students will put their persuasive skills to work with this worksheet. They will plan and write a draft of a persuasive paragraph on whether or not to buy an electronic device of their choosing.

Enjoy a sweet writing response page all about Valentine's Day. Kids will get to reflect on an important person in their life.

Students learn how to support an opinion by addressing opposing viewpoints.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

This worksheet gives students practice in topic exploration and elaboration using the catchy concept of an MVP.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Students will form their own opinions, as they voice whether or not they think children should be allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Give your students practice planning purposeful writing!

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe