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5th and 6th Grade Common Core Writing Organization Resources : Page 3

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Sentence Frames for Persuasive Writing

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

Opinion Essay: Mixed Up Essay

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

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #2: Literary Response

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

Glossary: Main Idea and Supporting Details

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

Persuasive Writing: Soda

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

Hook Your Reader!

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

Informative Essay: Idea Map

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

Narrative Structure: Prewriting

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Book or Character Mind Map

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Gratitude Journal

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

Your New Pet Dragon: Organizing Paragraphs 

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

Collecting Strong Evidence

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Language Frames: Compare & Contrast

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Argument and Claims

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

How to Outline a Short Story

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

Argument Writing: Parts of an Argument #2

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Punctuating Your Letter

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

Argument Writing: Counter-Arguments

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

Opinion Essay: Idea Map

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Find the Sentence Patterns

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

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Letter Checklist

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Writing with Unexpected Details

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

Persuasive Writing #2: Make It Happen

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

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

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

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

What Is an Analogy?

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

What's My Order?

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

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