W.4.1 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games

Young writers take on the perspective of a turkey in this creative writing exercise.

What does it mean to be struck by Cupid's arrow? Help your child build her writing skills with a Valentine's Day writing prompt.

Children reflect on the significance of this holiday with this thoughtful writing prompt.

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

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

Give your class the "write" tools they need to become excellent authors. In this literary lesson, students use their knowledge of author's purpose to successfully write pieces that persuade, inform, and entertain.

Integrate reading, writing, and social studies in this lesson about famous jazz musicians! This lesson would fit perfectly in a unit about biographies or Black History Month.

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay.

Use this civics lesson, which explores the suffrage movement for women, to teach your students about the importance of voting rights for all citizens.

This lesson will help your young writers develop a claim, or thesis, and construct an argument around it. You may have students complete the essay by continuing the process with the lesson Literary Argument Writing: Drafting Your Essay.

Students will read a story and listen to a song to explore the sound of silence, its meaning, and significance. They will share their experience and reflect on how and why silence or space can be important.