This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

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

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

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

Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

In this worksheet, students will use a topic and follow a structured outline to write their own persuasive paragraph.

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

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

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe their favorite place to spend time during summer.

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Hone writing skills by identifying opinion vs fact.

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

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

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Introduce your students to argument writing with this high-interest prompt about homework!

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Students learn how to support an opinion by addressing opposing viewpoints.

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

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