Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

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.

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.

Practice writing sensory poetry using this helpful template that focuses on a place and setting.

Where is your favorite place to go on vacation? Answer this question and more about places by filling in the blanks in the sentences.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet! 

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Frederick Douglass, an influential African American writer and abolitionist.

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

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

Who doesn't love dreaming about their ideal vacation? Help your young writers share their opinion of the best place to vacation while using this handy paragraph organizer.

Do fish drive around from place to place? Have a fun storytelling adventure with your child and create an imaginative story to go with this picture.

Where is this rocket ship going? Where did it come from? Your child can create a story and get a step-up by using the word bank as a place to start!

Use this colorful, open-ended worksheet to help your learners understand the value of 100.

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

Use this resource to support your students in discussing and writing a first person narrative. They will read a paragraph written as a third person narrative, and they will describe it as a first person narrative using a graphic organizer.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

Think about what you want to improve about yourself as you start the new school year with this writing prompt!

Use this template as a starting place for your students to hone their writing and editing skills. First, they'll have to convince someone to take a trip to a place of their choosing, then they'll edit their piece before rewriting.

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.