Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Five Senses Mystery Bags.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.