With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

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.

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

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

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?

Monster footprints in a dark forest sets the scene for a super scary story! This picture prompt will help your child practice creative writing.

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

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

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

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

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

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

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.

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

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.

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

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

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

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

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

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

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.

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.