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

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

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.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This social studies worksheet is a great way to encourage the next generation to understand the value and impact of voting while helping learners practice reading comprehension strategies.

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.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Help your learners think about all of the different plants and animals that live in habitats all over the world!

These leaves can be used for a variety of science lessons and classroom art projects!

Practice creative writing with some simple sentence prompts. Fill in the holes to describe what it's like to swim in the ocean.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

Children will color in a drawing of Earth, then write something they can do to help Earth, in this simple, sweet coloring page and writing prompt. 

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

When Christina Koch and Jessica Meir traveled to the International Space Station in October 2019, they went down in history as having completed the first all-female spacewalk. Children can learn about this momentous trip with the help of this wo

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

Clue your child into the anatomy of a house! She'll use the word bank to fill in the names of each room.

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 this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

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

Students will love learning about a new animal as they create an informational report using this helpful guide!

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

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

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Get kids in the holiday spirit by practicing 30 Days of Gratitude! This activity is perfect for November, but can also be done year-round.

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