Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Your student can practice reading a unique style of dialogue with this worksheet on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

Children will learn how and when to use quotation marks in dialogue and titles, then practice what they have learned.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Punctuation rules for quotation marks get a cartoon makeover with this worksheet!

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Five Senses Mystery Bags.

Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this worksheet.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

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! 

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

If your child needs some punctuation practice, give him a challenge with a quick quotation marks quiz!