Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

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

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

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

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

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

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

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

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

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

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

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

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

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

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

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

This writing exercise integrates both the construction of a friendly letter and the labeling of standard letter components.

Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

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

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

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

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