Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

Organizing your thoughts is an essential part of the writing process. It's easy--and fun--with this brainstorming worksheet.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

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

Your young writer can practice his storytelling skills with this character development worksheet, where he'll outline 4 fictional characters.

Use this template to plan and create an original comic.

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!

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.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

How can you care for your community? Get students thinking deeply with this engaging Ramadan-themed writing prompt!

How do stories of endurance and hope impact us? Inspire students to think deeply with this Passover-themed writing prompt!

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

What will happen to this cave-man? Your 5th grader can decide by writing a creative and exciting story to go with this illustration.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

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

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

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.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

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

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

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.

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

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