Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

Looks like Santa Claus is in trouble! It's up to your creative writer to unravel the mystery behind this mysterious letter.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

Second graders love telling stories! Help them take one small moment and write across many pages using this helpful planning organizer.

Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Help students reflect on revisions to their work and improve their writing with this worksheet.

Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, guide students through a peer review conference with this checklist! Students will reread their own work and then a partner's work, checking for punctuation, capitalization, and more.

Encourage students to share their writing with classmates and receive feedback to improve their writing with this peer publishing worksheet.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

How would the story of the Frog Prince go if it was told from the perspective of the other frogs in the pond?

What story can your second grader come up with for this winter scene? They also get some coloring time to go along with the story they write.

Have a blast completing this mouth-watering writing exercise by writing down the steps you would take to create the perfect ice cream sundae.

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Have you ever wanted to be someone new? In this fun worksheet, students can apply to the job of the Easter Bunny!

Try rewriting a childhood favorite, Peter Pan, as if Pan was the bad guy and Captain Hook was the good guy!

This joker is walking right into bad luck, literally! You get to decide what happens to him after he walks under this ladder. Be as creative as you want.

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.

What if you woke up on Christmas morning and time had stopped! What would happen next?

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

You've never heard a ghost story like The Phantom Knight of Vandal Camp! Discover the scares, if you dare, behind this tale before writing the ending.

This cuddly bear has a story to tell! Give your child a head start writing his own story with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest.

What is Georgie Porgie up to? Build phonics and comprehension skills with this nursery rhyme worksheet.

Is that polar bear eating an ice cream cone? Get your child into a creative writing mood with this fun coloring page, and let his imagination do the rest!

Mmmm! Can you smell the Christmas cookies in the oven? Warm up your child's writing skills with this Christmas cookies writing prompt.

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

Is that a pirate on a dinosaur's back? Yes. Why? Let your child decide (and slip in great composition skills practice)!

This What I Want for Christmas worksheet is a great template for letters to Santa. Try our What I Want for Christmas worksheet with your child this winter.

Did you know that in Australia, December 25th is actually during the summer? Imagine if we celebrated Christmas during the summer!