Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

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

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.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

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.

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

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Give your child a fun way to polish his writing skills with a Halloween story starter. Hell get to make up his own scary story and get a creativity boost.

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

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Record the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of winter! This winter writing prompt challenges your child to practice sensory description.

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.