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

Frame Your Essay

In this worksheet, students will use a topic and follow a structured outline to write their own persuasive paragraph.

Persuasive Writing Guide

This worksheet gives students practice in topic exploration and elaboration using the catchy concept of an MVP.

Magnify an MVP

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad

Write an informational essay about a summer topic like vacations, swimming pools, or outside games. Inspire your students to plan their essay with this summer-themed graphic organizer.

Diving Board Organizer

How does this paragraph start? Learn to read for context clues and use inference with this worksheet on topic sentences!

Beginning Sentences

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

What do you want to be when you grow up? This cute worksheet will help them learn about supporting the main idea with supporting details with their writing.

Supporting Details

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

The Upside-Down Traffic Lights Paragraph

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Write an Ice Skating Story

Get creative with this Halloween writing exercise. Your child will write a brief paragraph on the topic provided. Think scary thoughts!

Halloween Creative 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.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Important Supporting Details: Helen Keller

Every paragraph is made up of a topic sentence and supporting sentences to go with it! Learn the basics of paragraph writing and contextual reading.

Supporting Sentences

This worksheet walks students through the three main formatting strategies writers can use when organizing and pacing their narratives.

Using Formatting to Pace Your Piece

What was a time in your life when you were surprised? Use this prompt and worksheet to help students plan a personal narrative on this topic.

So Surprised!

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Sun Notetaking

Super powers and saving the world will make any child want to write! Your third grader will learn about adding supporting details to their main idea.

Super Hero Supporting Details

In writing, supporting the main idea with details is a skill your child should learn early on. Your second grader will fill in the details about a best friend!

Supporting Details: Who is Your Best Friend?

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

Describe Your Home

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

Help your students develop and prepare a well-reasoned argument with this handy organizer! First students will choose a topic that they feel strongly about, then they'll explain the reasons for their opinion and practice writing a concluding statement.

Opinion Organizing Outline

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Informational Indentations

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

Important Supporting Details: Cherokee

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Audience Analysis

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.

Letter Checklist

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

Persuasive Writing: Testing Your Reasons

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

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