In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

What if you could make up your own animal species? Your child will have fun as she uses her imagination to hone her writing skills.

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Introduce students to the power of self-appreciation with this inspiring writing activity!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this fun, summer-themed writing prompt about finding something mysterious buried in the sand!

Assess your students’ narrative writing skills with this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 6th grade.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

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

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

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

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Encourage learners to engage in research by offering them this Research Graphic Organizer to help guide their explorations and record their findings.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

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

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a walk in the woods that takes an unexpected turn when the trail disappears beneath the snow!

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

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

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

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.