Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

A soccer ball flies toward the goalie, but what happens next? Let your budding writer create his own story, using this picture prompt as a starting point.

The silverback gorilla is a special animal. This magnificent male is part of an endangered species. Complete this sheet to learn all about this gentle giant.

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about allowing teachers to hold classes outdoors!

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

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

Celebrate your successes with a fun writing prompt! Your child will have fun using her imagination and honing her writing skills with this writing prompt.

Here's a quick overview of drought and flooding to spark thoughts or conversation with your kids about water.

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

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

Inspire learners' creativity with this fun, seasonal writing prompt about a St. Patrick's Day-themed adventure!

Hold on to your extra eyes and slimy green ooze -- this isn't your average creative writing prompt!

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.

Invite students to practice their argumentative writing skills with this leap year-inspired writing prompt!

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

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

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 imaginative prompt to help your reluctant writer use his creativity to build sentences.

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.

The horned lizard has a scary exterior but a gentle personality. Your little student can learn about this North American lizard with this worksheet.

Students read background information about January as National Hobby Month and then respond to reflective questions.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

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.

This worksheet, which reads like riddles, will expose your learners to important abolitionists in the African American community.