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.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

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.

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

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.

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

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

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

A letter is found in an attic. There's a mystery ahead! Your young author can use their imagination to create a fictional story based on this writing prompt.

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

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