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.

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

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

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

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

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

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

Young writers will reflect on what the holiday season means to them with this seasonal writing prompt.

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

Is the sleeping dragon a watchdog or a pet? Your fifth grader can write her own story with this fun writing prompt.

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

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

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

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

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

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