Kids learn how to "show" instead of "tell" in their writing.

This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of American colonists and report back to the king himself in this creative worksheet!

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

There are so many amazing animals found in the ocean! Help your students decide on one animal to write and draw about as they practice their writing skills.

Learn how to use coordinating conjunctions and practice using them in sentences.

Practice creative writing with some simple sentence prompts. Fill in the holes to describe what it's like to swim in the ocean.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

Help your learners think about all of the different plants and animals that live in habitats all over the world!

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Whether your student is new to paragraph writing, or needs more practice, this worksheet is a wonderful introduction, practice, or review.

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

What do your students like about school? Help your students hone their poetry writing skills by writing a list poem about school!

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Flex those writing skills with these clever prompts. Practice stretching sentences by adding details of who, what, when and where!

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Boost your child's writing skills with these simple sentence starters for beginning writers!

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.