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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

What do you do at school every day? Help your child sort out her school routine and write it down, from beginning, to middle to end!

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

Integrate writing and science with this research graphic organizer in which students research and record information about an invasive species in their local region.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

In this creative essay-writing prompt, children identify something they love to do, then write the ways that they might turn this pastime into a vocation.

Give students another chance to think deeply and hone their writing skills with this relatable writing prompt based on a Babe Ruth quote.

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Give students an opportunity to think critically and practice their writing skills with this thoughtful writing prompt based on a Nelson Mandela quote.

Peter Pan says what? Your child adds to the famous story with his imagination in this fun writing exercise.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Let your child pretend to be a superhero and write a story about his super powers. He'll get some valuable handwriting practice in the process.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Uh-oh! The punctuation has gone missing, and we need your students' help editing these personal narratives! By looking closely at a punctuation-less narrative, students practice using correct end punctuation in this fun worksheet.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Having interviewed their classmates, students will practice their expository writing skills describing what they learned in complete sentences.

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!