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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

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

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a creative writing prompt. Kids will write about a romantic or silly way that they would show their love for someone.

What would you do if you were caught in a rainstorm made of gumballs? Bring out your creativity with this wacky writing prompt.

Explore your own life to find something magnificent and then turn it into a poem!

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

Did you ever get bad luck from seeing a black cat cross your path? Maybe the superstition is not as scary as you thought!

Help students consider ways they can show courtesy to others during National Courtesy Month with this engaging writing prompt!

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.

In this spooky-slash-silly writing prompt, kids can write about what kind of music, if any, might repel a zombie.

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

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

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

Match these famous movie quotes with their films! Some of these famous movie quotes from classics, and others are from new favorites for a fun challenge.

The legend of Robin Hood was passed down through ballads. After reading about him, you and your child can try writing a ballad of your own!

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

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.

Imagine if the classic Christmas story, The Nutcracker, was actually a Halloween story! How would that change the way the story was told?

Encourage your child to decode a favorite quote in this reading comprehension sheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!