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

Kids learn how to "show" instead of "tell" in their writing.

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

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

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

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.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

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

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

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.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

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

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

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

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

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

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.