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

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

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.

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Did you know that kids all over the globe know of the boogeyman? This cautionary tale is told in almost every country!

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

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

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

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

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Get into the spirit of Halloween, and write about your scariest experience! This writing prompt is a fun way to build grammar and vocabulary skills.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe