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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

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

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

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

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

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.

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

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

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.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

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