Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

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 resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

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.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Instead of reading the story and then reviewing it, kids have to put this mixed-up story back together in order to understand what's going on.

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

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.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

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

Have you ever heard of a half-horse, half-fish? In old Mediterranean folklore these mythical beasts are quite common!

Get into the spirit of Halloween, and write about your scariest experience! This writing prompt is a fun way to build grammar and vocabulary skills.

It's a scene that needs a kid's finishing touch to be complete. Can your child finish the comic strip?

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Have a blast completing this mouth-watering writing exercise by writing down the steps you would take to create the perfect ice cream sundae.

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.

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.