A diamante poem is a diamond shaped poem. Show your students an example of this type of poem and invite them write their own diamantes!

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

Learners hone their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about Valentine's Day gift exchanges!

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and determine a person whom they should thank. Your students will write a thank you note to that person.

This 3-page worksheet about opinion writing for kids provides a topic and poses questions to help them organize their thoughts and write their opinion.

Use this assessment and the corresponding rubric to see how well students write personal narratives!

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

How can you show love to your friends and family? Get students thinking deeply with this Easter-themed writing prompt!

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

Mix fun with zen in this haiku activity! Students will practice writing about everyday objects in the style of haiku.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

Write a summer-themed dialogue for this mother and son, then color in the pictures.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

Your students will read a story about an unusual Thanksgiving Day and retell it from another character’s point of view.

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and pick out the highs and lows of the year. We all go through them, and what is important is that we learn from them.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

In this nonfiction writing exercise, students will consider whether they are superstitious, what superstitions they might hold, and how they feel about superstitions in general.

Use this Thanksgiving-inspired exercise to get your students’ creative juices flowing.

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Read about the Wampus Cat, a famous Tennessee legend. Test comprehension as your child reads about some of the sightings.

Children are invited to reflect on the ways adversity can lead to gratitude in this thoughtful writing prompt.

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.

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

Imagine if there were a ski resort on the moon! Use those creative writing skills to make up a story that goes with this silly picture.

What if a zombie horde went up against a viking horde? Your little writer will decide who will be victorious!