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.

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

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

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

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

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of American colonists and report back to the king himself in this creative worksheet!

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.

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

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.

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

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.

Students practice expressing ideas precisely and concisely by revising sentences to remove vague and redundant words or phrases.

This rubric for sixth-grade argument writing covers all of the major Common Core standards in the argument writing strand, including introduction, support, transitions, style, and conclusion.

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

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for sixth grade!

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

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

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

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.

Should all people have a right to internet access? Argue your stance in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle school!

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

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

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