After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Mix fun with zen in this haiku activity! Students will practice writing about everyday objects in the style of haiku.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

Use this colorful, open-ended worksheet to help your learners understand the value of 100.

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

Write a summer-themed dialogue for this mother and son, then color in the pictures.

Help your students practice their writing skills using this journal page about their weekend. Challenge them to fill the entire page!

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

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

What would school be like if you had it your way? Write an opinion piece about what a perfect school would be like.

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

Your students will read a story about an unusual Thanksgiving Day and retell it from another character’s point of view.

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and pick out the highs and lows of the year. We all go through them, and what is important is that we learn from them.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

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.

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

Use this graphic organizer to help kids differentiate between fact or opinion.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

Children will use their imaginations to write and illustrate a short nonfiction essay in this creative writing exercise.

A.J. and C.K.'s camping adventure is up to your fourth grade author in this comic strip-writing adventure!

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

In this nonfiction writing exercise, students will consider whether they are superstitious, what superstitions they might hold, and how they feel about superstitions in general.

Make taking notes fun by having your students use this handy organizer to collect their thoughts while learning about predators and prey. Students will note what they learn, questions they have, and new or interesting vocabulary words they hear.

Use this Thanksgiving-inspired exercise to get your students’ creative juices flowing.

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

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Learn how to write dialogue with this writing activity that, in the long run, will help you better understand literature.