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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

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

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

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.

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

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

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.