5th Grade Writing Worksheets : Page 3

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Whether it’s a poet, inventor, or famous scientist, this worksheet will help learners gather and organize important information.

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

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

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.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own 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.

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

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

Invite learners to research Ramadan and record their findings using this festive research template!

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.

This graphic organizer is a helpful tool for learners to gather and organize key information as they research an important person of their choice.

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

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

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

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

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

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

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about an unexpected walk down memory lane while stuck inside on a snowy weekend.

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Inspire creative thinking this Earth Day with a nature-themed reflective writing prompt.

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.