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.

In this sixth-grade worksheet, students hone their narrative writing skills by practicing identifying and removing irrelevant details to strengthen a story.

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

Improve students' argument writing skills by identifying and removing irrelevant details with this middle school writing worksheet!

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

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships between ideas.

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 plan their informational writing with 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.

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

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.

Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.

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!

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

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.

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.