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

Do Christmas angels play hockey? Use your imagination to elaborate on this wacky winter scene!

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 activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

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

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Imagine if the classic Christmas story, The Nutcracker, was actually a Halloween story! How would that change the way the story was told?

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Jump into a comic strip with this creative writing prompt. Tell a story about your life as a superhero!

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

This worksheet is designed to provide additional support for students who need extra practice with the basic revising and editing skills.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

What if Friday the 13th really did cause everybody bad luck? Let your creativity jump off from here and write about the worst possible Friday the 13th.

If your child has ever fantasized about being a pro athlete, he'll enjoy this writing assignment! Characters have stats and stories have supporting details.

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

Give your child a fun way to polish his writing skills with a Halloween story starter. Hell get to make up his own scary story and get a creativity boost.

Help your students to show their understanding of operations within word problems.

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

Do you remember your favorite Christmas experience? Get your little writer to practice her creative writing with a fun prompt.

This joker is walking right into bad luck, literally! You get to decide what happens to him after he walks under this ladder. Be as creative as you want.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

A.J. and C.K. are at it again! If your child is into comics or graphic novels, they're sure to love this do-it-yourself comic adventure.

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.