The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

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

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

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Learn how to use coordinating conjunctions and practice using them in sentences.

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of American colonists and report back to the king himself in this creative worksheet!

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

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

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Learn step by step how to create a report! Research facts about camels, complete the sentences, then use the sentences to create a report about camels.

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

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

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

Exercise your beginning writer's creativity and sentence-building skills with this fun family project, all about mom!