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No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details in the context of sentences and paragraphs. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Power Reading lesson.

Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

Great Writing Starts with Golden Ideas

Help students learn how to read passages with multiple main ideas and differentiate between main ideas and supporting details by creating a graphic organizer with proof from the text.

Power Reading

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

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

Finish the Mystery

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Frame Your Essay

Help students organize their ideas and structure their written responses with the PEEL strategy!

PEEL Writing Strategy Handout

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

PEEL Paragraph Graphic Organizer

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

Household Chores: Opinion Writing Exercise

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

Informative Essay: Idea Map

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Write Your Essay

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

Blog Template: Listicles

Help your students learn how to move smoothly between ideas and paragraphs using transition words and phrases. Young writers will use real texts as mentors as they study how authors use words to transition between ideas and support their claims. As a result, they will have a word bank to use in their own writing. 

Transition Word Hunter

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

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

Narrative Structure: Prewriting

Get kids thinking about their opinions!  This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece.  This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Organizing My Opinion

The hardest part of writing an essay can be the first few steps. This lesson and accompanying graphic organizers will help students map out their ideas and practice crafting paragraphs. With this support, your writers will be off and running! 

Calling All Nonfiction Writers!

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.

Informative Essay: Anchor Paper

Knowing how to write an effective persuasive letter is a powerful tool. Students will learn how to advocate for their ideas by planning and drafting a well-supported persuasive letter on an issue of their choice.

Crafting Your Persuasive Letter

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

Paragraphs That POP!

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

Hone your students' close reading skills by using this interesting and fun lesson that teaches your class survival skills in an informational text.

Super Survival Skills

Help your students to show their understanding of operations within word problems.

Co-Craft Situations: A Word Problem Activity

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

Hook Your Reader!

This Easter writing prompt will get your child to think about Easter traditions and then order his thoughts by practicing structured composition.

Easter Creative Writing #4

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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