Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

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!

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Beginning readers can practice their comprehension skills by using this graphic organizer to diagram the plot of a story or book.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

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

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Help your kindergarten students learn about sequencing and science as they learn about the five stages in a ladybugs life.

What do you want to be when you grow up? This cute worksheet will help them learn about supporting the main idea with supporting details with their writing.

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.