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

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

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

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.

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

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.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

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.

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

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

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

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

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

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 will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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