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

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

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

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

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

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

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

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

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

It's a scene that needs a kid's finishing touch to be complete. Can your child finish the comic strip?

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

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

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

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

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

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!