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Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

The hardest part of writing an essay can be the first few steps. This lesson and accompanying graphic organizers will help students map out their ideas and practice crafting paragraphs. With this support, your writers will be off and running! 

Calling All Nonfiction Writers!

A strong hook will grab a reader's attention and pull them into your story! This organizer will help young writers try out different ideas and decide on the strongest hook for their personal narrative.

Narrative Hooks: Brainstorming

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Narrative Structure: Prewriting

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

Get kids thinking about their opinions!  This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece.  This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Organizing My Opinion

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

Informative Essay: Anchor Paper

Knowing how to write an effective persuasive letter is a powerful tool. Students will learn how to advocate for their ideas by planning and drafting a well-supported persuasive letter on an issue of their choice.

Crafting Your Persuasive Letter

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

Paragraphs That POP!

Students will continue their informational writing project by organizing the information they gathered through research. They will use a graphic organizer to organize their ideas and sort their research notes into meaningful sections.

Informational Essay: Getting Organized Before Writing

Hone your students' close reading skills by using this interesting and fun lesson that teaches your class survival skills in an informational text.

Super Survival Skills

St. Patrick&#39;s Day is a widely popular holiday all over the world. Teach your students about some interesting traditions as they write an informative text about how St. Patrick&#39;s Day is celebrated.

St. Patrick's Day Celebrations

Students will learn to structure their written arguments as they create their own class paper full of opinion editorial pieces in this fun, real-world driven lesson. Step right up and write all about it!

Extra, Extra! Read All About It

What is the intention of an indentation within a paragraph? Within this lesson, students will explore the reasons why we indent. They’ll categorize and classify content to construct paragraphs that include indentations.

Indentation Intentions

Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practice writing a paragraph.

Writing a Paragraph

Your students will be ready to write with this paragraph writing worksheet!

Getting Ready for the Day: Paragraph Writing

Whether your student is new to paragraph writing, or needs more practice, this worksheet is a wonderful introduction, practice, or review.

Paragraph Practice 

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Argument Writing: Persuasive Letters

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

I Beg to Differ! Writing Effective Counterclaims

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

Malala: Education Advocate

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Informational Writing: Strong Support

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

Crafting Voice in Narrative Writing

In this sixth-grade worksheet, students hone their narrative writing skills by practicing identifying and removing irrelevant details to strengthen a story.

Narrative Writing: Removing Irrelevant Details

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Crafting Voice in Informational Writing

Who doesn’t love learning about animals? Engage students in research as they write informational books about animals.

Animal Research

Help your students to show their understanding of operations within word problems.

Co-Craft Situations: A Word Problem Activity

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Important Supporting Details: Helen Keller

Your students will love learning all about the playful characters in a classic read-aloud text while digging into what makes characters unique. Use as a stand-alone or support lesson for the How to Analyze a Character lesson plan.

Using Evidence to Analyze a Character

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

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