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2nd - 4th Grade Common Core Writing Organization Resources : Page 4

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Practice Writing a Strong Lead: Literary Essay

Children draw on their own experiences to craft a personal narrative in this essay-writing worksheet.

Story Map a Personal Narrative

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

Opinion Essay: Idea Map

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

Bubble Graphic Organizer

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Narrative Writing Learning Check

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

Argument Writing: Peer Review Rubric

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #2: Literary Response

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Informative Essay: Idea Map

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

Hooks in Informational Writing

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

Persuasive Writing Graphic Organizer

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Writing Prompt: Change

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Storyboard

Give your students extra practice in writing titles and headlines that include correct capitalization.

Capitals in Titles

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!

The Best Food

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.

Recess Opinion Writing

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Creative Writing for Kids: Pet Dinosaur

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

Narrative Hooks

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Common Idioms

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

Argument Writing: Parts of an Argument #2

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

Argument Writing: Match the Evidence

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

Finish the Story: The Forest

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Hook Your Reader!

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

Finish the Mystery

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Mix Up Your Sentences! With Conjunctions and Adverb Phrases

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Your students will be ready to write with this paragraph writing worksheet!

Getting Ready for the Day: Paragraph Writing

Children learn to structure a paragraph in this hands-on writing organization exercise.

Sentence Grouping

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

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