Children practice parts of speech as they learn about this special poetry genre.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Practice argumentative writing with this Earth Day-themed prompt about tourism's impact on the environment. 

Build great sentence writing skills with these sentence prompts for kids.

Give your students a chance to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

This worksheet is a lovely introduction to cinquains and poetic forms.

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Looking for an alternative activity to ignite the imaginations of your reluctant writers? Use this fun comic book template to introduce creative writing to your students. Novice writers and artists alike will delight in the chance to create their own comi

Give your students a chance to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt!

Use this template to plan and create an original comic.

Students answer key questions about their main character to develop details in this pre-writing worksheet.

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Third person narrative is the most commonly used point of view in writing. Introduce your child to the concept of third person narrative with this worksheet.

Take the intimidation out of narrative writing with this exciting alternative! Budding writers and artists alike will love the chance to get creative with this comic book template.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

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

This worksheet walks second and third graders through the steps of planning and writing a persuasive paragraph, from selecting a topic to forming an opinion and providing reasoning for their opinion.

How can you care for your community? Get students thinking deeply with this engaging Ramadan-themed writing prompt!

How do stories of endurance and hope impact us? Inspire students to think deeply with this Passover-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.