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Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

What is your favorite animal? Answer this question and many more in this creative writing worksheet in which young writers can practice writing sentences.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

There's no better way to get your kid thinking about the weather than by having him write about it. Kids write a sentence about the weather in each picture.

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe their dream summer vacation.

Young writers practice crafting thoughtful, compelling paragraphs with this persuasive writing worksheet.

Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

Young readers will enjoy reflecting on a recent book with this engaging template.

This paragraph writing worksheet gets your child back to the basics of writing. In this paragraph writing worksheet, kids will write using a graphic organizer.

Ever wonder how the sun helps plants grow? Here is an easy way to explain the process of photosynthesis to your first grader.

Help your learners think about all of the different plants and animals that live in habitats all over the world!

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 creative writing with some simple sentence prompts. Fill in the holes to describe what it's like to swim in the ocean.

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

This fun worksheet will help young students as they dive into the genre of biography.

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.