Kids love telling stories. Encourage your kindergarteners to practice retelling familiar stories as they recount their very first day of school.

What do you do when you wake up in the morning? Have some fun telling a real-life story with this graphic organizer.

Your first graders have been working hard on honing their narrative writing, so now it's time to put their practice into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to develop a setting when writing narrative texts.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Is your first grader a heart surgeon in the making? Or maybe a world-famous chef? Encourage your child to explore the future as he practices his handwriting.

How far can you stretch these sentences? Give your young writer a creativity boost with this clever sentence practice sheet.

Children will enjoy reflecting on a few of their favorite people with this fun drawing and writing prompt.

Engage your students in argumentative writing by having them share an opinion on a topic that may be near and dear (or not so dear!) to their hearts—homework!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Want to give your kindergartener's writing skills an edge? This fun worksheet prompts her to author her own story about a bug.

Help your young students learn the importance of transition words in this fun activity. By filling in the missing words, students discover how transition words help structure procedural writing.

You know your first grader would leap at the chance to own a pet dinosaur. Let him explore the possibilities with this fun handwriting exercise!

Successful peer conferences are a breeze with this narrative writing checklist! Students will review their own writing and a partner's writing, checking for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Summer writing can start with drawing something fun, or thinking about their favorite parts of warm days. This worksheet is a fun quick-start for ideas.

Your kids will love learning and sharing about animals in this engaging research activity! Engage students in the research process as they prepare to write informational books about animals.

Reading, writing, and counting...this worksheet has it all! Kindergarten students practice identifying and reading a sentence, while also honing their counting skills in this fun activity!

Kindergarten students have lots of opinions! Help them write a review of their favorite animal to share with their classmates.

Kindergarteners will write about their favorite foods with this journal worksheet. This activity will develop your students' writing and brainstorming skills while challenging them to fill up the entire page with words!

It’s almost the end of the school year! How are your kindergarten students progressing in their writing skills? Use this helpful, open-ended writing prompt to assess your students’ narrative writing.

Does an octopus have 8 tentacles? Test your fact and opinion identification skills with this colorful undersea adventure.

Use this fun bee-themed worksheet to help your students write a poem all about bees!

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.

This research, drawing, and writing worksheet is a fun introduction to informational and science writing.

It's never too early to start planning for your future! After imagining what their lives will be like at age 25, students write persuasive letters to their parents asking for their support.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Acrostic poems are a fun, easy introduction to poetry. Learn about what makes a good acrostic poem and try writing one about school!

Get ready to revise! Something as simple as adding details can really breathe life into boring sentences! Help students improve their writing as they use details to bring simple sentences to life.

This sports-themed worksheet is bound to rally up your kindergarteners' opinions. With this persuasive writing worksheet, your students will write about their favorite sports.