This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a walk in the woods that takes an unexpected turn when the trail disappears beneath the snow!

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

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Exercise your beginning writer's creativity and sentence-building skills with this fun family project, all about mom!

In this thoughtful opinion-writing worksheet, children will describe the season they like best, and why.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

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.

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.

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

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

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

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

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

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

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

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.

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe the summer climate where they live.

Encourage children to reflect on the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with this multi-page 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.

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

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!