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

Young writers will reflect on what the holiday season means to them with this seasonal writing prompt.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Is the sleeping dragon a watchdog or a pet? Your fifth grader can write her own story with this fun writing prompt.

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

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

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

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

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

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

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

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?

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

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

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

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

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

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

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

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

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

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

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

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