Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about fall break requirements!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about school dress codes!

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

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Exercise your beginning writer's creativity and sentence-building skills with this fun family project, all about mom!

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

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