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

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

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.

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

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

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

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.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

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 sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

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

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.