Monster footprints in a dark forest sets the scene for a super scary story! This picture prompt will help your child practice creative writing.

Invite children to reflect on family with this sweet writing template!

If you're stuck at home this summer, try these fun pretend postcards instead for an exercise in creative writing!

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Give your child practice with his writing skills with this printable worksheet that asks your child to describe what he likes to do at the beach.

Give your students the opportunity to conduct an interview with a family member or loved one to learn about their meaningful traditions. They will ask questions about fall traditions, finding out about clothing, food, location, and the people involved. Th

Students read background information about April as National Volunteer Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Most people use electronics every day, from cell phones to computers to microwaves. But does your child know where electronics come from?

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).

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

This baby dinosaur needs help forming his first sentence! Your second grader can build reading and writing skills with our beginning sentence writing worksheet.

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

Once students have completed a first draft of narrative writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, compelling details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Students read background information about June as National Great Outdoors Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Imagine what you could do if you could fly! Practice your handwriting and creativity with these sentence starters.

In this creative writing prompt, students will imagine what it would be like to turn into a werewolf at the stroke of midnight every Halloween. 

Young historians learn about four pioneering female athletes as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women in Sports worksheet.

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

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!

Practice basic capitalization rules with this worksheet which asks: to capitalize or not capitalize?

The California condor has been brought back from the brink of extinction. This worksheet will help your little bird lover learn all about the condor.

Use this fun bee-themed worksheet to help your students write a poem all about bees!

Young writers will love this fun creative writing prompt that invites them to dream big.

What lurks inside this spooky house? Your 5th grader can invent her own scary story based on this haunting illustration!