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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.

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

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

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!

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

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

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

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.

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

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

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.

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

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

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

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

Who doesn't love dreaming about their ideal vacation? Help your young writers share their opinion of the best place to vacation while using this handy paragraph organizer.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

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