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

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

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

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

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

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.

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

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.

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

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

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

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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

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.

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

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

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

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

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

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

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