This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

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

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

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

Exercise your beginning writer's creativity and sentence-building skills with this fun family project, all about mom!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

Get kids in the holiday spirit by practicing 30 Days of Gratitude! This activity is perfect for November, but can also be done year-round.

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

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

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

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.