Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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

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

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

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.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

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