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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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