Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

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

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

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells out a word or message! Give your child a fun challenge with this acrostic "mother" poem starter.

Get your little storyteller in gear for creative writing! This story starter worksheet is perfect for honing your child's writing skills.

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

What if you had $1,000, but you couldn't spend it on yourself? Flex your creativity and goodwill thinking with this writing prompt.

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

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.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

This worksheet bundle rounds up some writing prompts for your child to explore different writing styles.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

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

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

In this worksheet, children read the article and circle each misspelled word, then correctly spell each one.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

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

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

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