Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

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

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

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

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

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

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

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

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

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

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

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.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

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.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!

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

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.