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

The legend of Robin Hood was passed down through ballads. After reading about him, you and your child can try writing a ballad of your own!

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

Encourage your child to decode a favorite quote in this reading comprehension sheet.

Budding writers can find their inner zen and build creative writing skills by practicing some haiku poetry.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Use this survey to help students think about their opinions and reasoning for eight high-interest prompts.

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

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, readers reflect on the theme of individuality vs. conformity in this fun post-reading activity. 

This graphic organizer helps kinds understand the importance of achieving goals and how they can do it step by step.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

This high-flying cartoon wrestler is on the path to lucha libre lore, but it's up to you to decide how he gets there. Color him in and then write his story.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

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!

Play the role of author, and rewrite a famous fairy tale! What if the Cinderella story was told from the perspective of the stepsisters?

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Practice opinion writing using a real life situation with this prompt that focuses on changes in the classroom.

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

Challenge students to come up with arguments and counter-arguments for a controversial topic, whether they agree or not.

All writing needs support! Give your young writer some structure with this supporting statements activity.

Nouns are an important part of every sentence! What would happen if we tried to write a story with no nouns?

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

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.

Seen Sasquatch? Here's a list of ten ways to know, but just like Sasquatch, some of the items are missing. Fill in the rest using your awesome creativity!

This worksheet walks students through the three main formatting strategies writers can use when organizing and pacing their narratives.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Tilly from Tilly and the Bookwanderers.

Do you avoid stepping on cracks in the road? Have some fun exploring a common childhood superstition!