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.

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

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.

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

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

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

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

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

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

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

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

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

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

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

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

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

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

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

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

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.

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

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.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

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