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Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Practice Writing a Strong Lead: Literary Essay

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

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.




Literary Argument Writing: Defining Your Topic

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Audience Analysis

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. 

Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Argument and Claims

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Different Ways to Start a Story

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.  

It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

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

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #1: Literary Response

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

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #2: Literary Response


Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

Kids can fly by character analysis, comparative reading and writing, that revolves around a fun chapter of a classic book. Follow the Darlings toward Neverland on the way to improved reading skills.

Peter Pan and Neverland

Can you read 100 books in a day? Run a mile in 30 seconds? Kids can compare fact and fiction with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and others to learn about story structure, character analysis and hyperbole.

Tall Tales

Bram Stoker's Dracula has inspired feelings of fear and morbid curiosity for over a century. With this lesson plan, your students will get a taste of the literary work while learning about the myth behind vampires.

Mythological Creature: Vampire

Flex those creative writing skills by starting a story in a few different ways! Use the picture as a prompt, and use each technique to start a story.

Good Ways to Start a Story

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Collecting Strong Evidence

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

How to Begin a Story

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

Starting a Story

Peter Pan says what? Your child adds to the famous story with his imagination in this fun writing exercise.

You Tell the Story

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Metaphors in Poetry

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Tall Tales for Kids

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Writing a Tall Tale

Reminisce on a fun summer with this second-grade writing worksheet!

You've Got Mail! Letter Writing #1

Help your students' favorite characters come to life in new adventures as student writers draft new endings to their favorite stories.

Fan Fiction Finales

Up, up, and away! It's Peter Pan vs. Wendy vs. John in this reading comprehension lesson. Using the Peter Pan and Neverland workbook, students will use text excerpts and comprehension questions to write an essay comparing main characters.

Peter Pan and Neverland 4: The Flight Part 3

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.

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