Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Write your own Declaration of Independence in this creative writing worksheet!

Write the story to go along with this series of story illustrations with this fun writing prompt.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

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.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

This volcano writing worksheet is a great story starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

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

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Being a fish might be fun! Your young writer can write their own under the sea story with this creative writing prompt.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.