4th Grade Opinion Writing Resources

Get ready to ring in the New Year with a fun writing prompt, all about New Year's resolutions. This is a good way to build paragraph-writing skills.

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

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

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

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

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

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

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

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

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

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

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

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

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

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.

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

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