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.

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

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.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

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

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

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

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Young writers will use their imagination and descriptive language to tell a fictional story in this seasonal writing prompt.

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

Assess kids' ability to support opinions with this writing prompt.

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

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

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Are there monsters in the closet? Your 5th grader will use her imagination to create a fun story based on this illustration!

A day of fishing is interrupted by a giant sea monster! What happens next? This writing prompt will help your student stretch his imagination.

Learners will read four text massages and rewrite them using proper grammar and correct spelling and punctuation.

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

Look out, a twister is headed this way! This tornado writing prompt is sure to trigger a creative story from your young writer.