This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Looking for an opinion graphic organizer for your learner? Check out this worksheet template that helps your child list an opinion, reasons, and conclusion.

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.

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe their favorite place to spend time during summer.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

Learners write an argumentative response with this Earth Day-themed writing prompt about plastic bags. 

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

In this thoughtful opinion-writing worksheet, children will describe the season they like best, and why.

In this creative activity, students design and make a case for their own proposed emoji.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

Before students write opinion pieces, they need to understand the difference between facts and opinions. This worksheet teaches them to do just that by having students cut out various statements and sort them into fact and opinion categories.

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

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.