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.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

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!

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

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.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

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

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

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

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

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

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

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

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

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

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.

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

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

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

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

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

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

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

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.

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