This activity encourages your students to write a poem about their favorite animals! Help your students hone their poetry writing skills using this list poem template.

Kiss “The End” goodbye! This activity gets students to practice using more interesting story endings.

Successful peer conferences are a breeze with this narrative writing checklist! Students will review their own writing and a partner's writing, checking for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Does your 1st grader have a favorite activity or game? Have him write his opinion with this easy to use opinion writing template worksheet.

Oh no! Cuz-Cuz is in Roly's food! It's up to your child to figure out why by adding text to the characters' speech bubbles.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

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.

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

Is your first grader a heart surgeon in the making? Or maybe a world-famous chef? Encourage your child to explore the future as he practices his handwriting.

How do people celebrate Diwali? Help your little one learn about a traditional Hindu holiday celebrated in the fall.

Help your child learn about sensory language as they describe an experience.

Give your child practice with his writing skills with this printable writing worksheet that prompts your child to write about rainbows.

This story starter featuring an alien eating ice cream will have her begging to complete this exercise and then probably begging for an ice cream cone as well!

Feeling grateful is what Thanksgiving is all about! Let your first grader express his gratitude with a fun drawing activity.

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will generate ideas about big events they've experienced and then pick one to focus their narratives on.

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

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

A cowboy meets a dragon but how does it end, and how did it start? Your young story teller can decide!

This graphic organizer introduces kids to informational writing by asking them to explain how to play a game to a new friend.

Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Great writing is in the details! As students revise their narrative writing, encourage them to use more descriptive details. This worksheet helps students dig deeper and revise their writing to include more adjectives.

This page is ready for writing out a cowboy's tale. Kids can color in what their cowboy hat should look like then write their own cowboy story.

Here are a few fun things to help your first grader think about the spring season. What does he like to do? What do people wear in springtime?

Use this handy worksheet to help your students (and you!) keep track of their writing goals. Refer to the goals during writing workshop conferences, and be sure to have students add to them and revise them as needed.

Children will draw an Easter picture, then write about their picture on the lines, in this sweet writing and drawing prompt.

Have your 1st grader practice his handwriting and drawing while making up a story about going to outer space.

Children will write a story about Sheep and friends' fun night out together in this creative writing prompt.

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

This cat looks crafty, but how does the story end? Give your child a head start writing a creative story with this fun coloring page.