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

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Get your little storyteller in gear for creative writing! This story starter worksheet is perfect for honing your child's writing skills.

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

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

Put a little imagination into writing practice! Kids will imagine up a new animal species and write a descriptive paragraph about it.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Get creative with this Halloween writing exercise. Your child will write a brief paragraph on the topic provided. Think scary thoughts!

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

This Halloween story starter will help your child polish grammar, handwriting and spelling skills. Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween story starter!

Students learn how to support an opinion by addressing opposing viewpoints.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

Second graders love telling stories! Help them plan their own small moment stories using this handy graphic organizer.

Practice retelling familiar stories using this detail-oriented worksheet!

Challenge your students to form a well-reasoned argument with this writing prompt (and rubric!) that's sure to evoke some strong opinions. Students will think about how much homework second graders should be given and make their case in essay form.

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Give your students the opportunity to put a friendly letter together!

Help young readers think critically about the organization of a paragraph using this reading and writing activity. Students will read a paragraph about recycling and then choose the best sentences to add to the piece to make it even better!

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!