This small-group exercise makes crafting compound sentences fun!

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

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

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

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

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

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

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

In this writing exercise, students will learn more about the different kinds of adverbs and come up with a word bank they can refer to later.

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

Mindful walking is a great way to build mind-body connections. After trying it out, students can use this handout to reflect on their mindful walking experience.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Learn about these lush, diverse biomes and practice spotting their inhabitants.

This worksheet helps students reflect on the practice of sending kindness to themselves and others.

Give students the opportunity to think creatively about Louis Sachar’s Holes after they’re done reading!

Connect forms of energy to real-life scenarios in this third- and fourth-grade worksheet!

Relive the experience of trying something new with this personal narrative writing prompt for third, fourth, and fifth graders!

Make sure your young scientists stay safe as they conduct experiments!

Unscramble key vocabulary words about energy and collisions with this engaging science worksheet!

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

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.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Students convert improper fractions to mixed numbers to determine how much to feed their pet alien!