If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

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!

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Create some Halloween poetry with this acrostic poem-writing worksheet!

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

What if you had $1,000, but you couldn't spend it on yourself? Flex your creativity and goodwill thinking with this writing prompt.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells out a word or message! Give your child a fun challenge with this acrostic "mother" poem starter.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Use details and imagery to capture this long holiday in writing.

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

Grab a quill and ink ... it's time to write Santa a Victorian letter! Give your child a dose of history with this festive writing prompt.

After completing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Got a curious kid at home? Help him discover more about the kangaroo, the national animal of Australia and a favorite of zoo-goers everywhere.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

Polish your writing skills with this spooky Halloween writing exercise! Your child will use his imagination to build a scary story from this prompt.

Practice letter-writing basics with this cut-out Mother's Day card template!

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

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

This Halloween story starter will help your child polish grammar, handwriting and spelling skills. Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween story starter!

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

Beware of walking under ladders! Find out the origins of this superstition and why people avoid walking under ladders.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

Here's a chance for your kid to dream up his very own superhero! With this narrative writing worksheet, he'll brainstorm strong verbs and adjectives.

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.