In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

A diamante poem is a diamond shaped poem. Show your students an example of this type of poem and invite them write their own diamantes!

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

Learners hone their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about Valentine's Day gift exchanges!

Little Easter Bunnies, get out your creative thinking caps and delve into this Easter writing prompt. Can you think up the best Easter egg hunt?

This 3-page worksheet about opinion writing for kids provides a topic and poses questions to help them organize their thoughts and write their opinion.

Use this assessment and the corresponding rubric to see how well students write personal narratives!

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

How can you show love to your friends and family? Get students thinking deeply with this Easter-themed writing prompt!

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

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

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

Mix fun with zen in this haiku activity! Students will practice writing about everyday objects in the style of haiku.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

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

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

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

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.

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

A.J. and C.K.'s camping adventure is up to your fourth grade author in this comic strip-writing adventure!

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

In this nonfiction writing exercise, students will consider whether they are superstitious, what superstitions they might hold, and how they feel about superstitions in general.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!