Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

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

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

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

Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

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

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

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.

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

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

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

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.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

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

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

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

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

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

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

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

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

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

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

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