Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

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.

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

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

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

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

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

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.

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

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

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

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.

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

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

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

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

In this exercise your students will color code the key components of an example informative paragraph.

Give your students extra practice in writing titles and headlines that include correct capitalization.

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.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

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