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

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Learn more about the life of Anne Frank, a tragic, true-life story of a young girl caught up in the horrors of war.

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

Assess your students’ ability to revise incomplete or run-on sentences.

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

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

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.

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

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

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

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

When Christina Koch and Jessica Meir traveled to the International Space Station in October 2019, they went down in history as having completed the first all-female spacewalk. Children can learn about this momentous trip with the help of this wo

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

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension 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.

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

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

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.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

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.