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

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Give students practice changing passive voice to active voice with this eighth-grade grammar and writing worksheet! 

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

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

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.