Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

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

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

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

What if you had $1,000, but you couldn't spend it on yourself? Flex your creativity and goodwill thinking with this writing prompt.

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

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

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

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

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.

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

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

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

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

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

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

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

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.

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