This reading exercise uses interactive story writing; it's a great way to look at reading comprehension from a different angle.

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.

Practice letter-writing basics with this cut-out Mother's Day card template!

It's time to put on your creative writing caps! Your students will enjoy writing their own endings to this unfinished 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.

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

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.

After reading the classic Aesop fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," students will use their imaginations to compose their own introductions using one of the most common story hooks (fact, question, description, statement, or sound).

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

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

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.

Use this template as a starting place for your students to hone their writing and editing skills. First, they'll have to convince someone to take a trip to a place of their choosing, then they'll edit their piece before rewriting.

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.

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

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.

Discover more about the dingo, a type of wild dog that lives in Australia, in this worksheet.