Write the story to go along with this series of story illustrations with this fun writing prompt.

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Students read background information about August as National Sandwich Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

A soccer ball flies toward the goalie, but what happens next? Let your budding writer create his own story, using this picture prompt as a starting point.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

This volcano writing worksheet is a great story starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Give your students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt!

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

Students read background information about July as National Anti-Boredom Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Being a fish might be fun! Your young writer can write their own under the sea story with this creative writing prompt.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Integrate writing and science with this research graphic organizer in which students research and record information about an invasive species in their local region.

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

Use this fun creative writing prompt and accompanying rubric to inspire budding authors and help them hone their narrative writing skills.

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.