4th grade Nonfiction Writing Printable Worksheets

Use this resource to help your students get organized. The labeled sections will guide them to follow the proper informative essay structure.

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

Challenge your writer's critical thinking skills by asking him to pen a persuasive narrative in favor of or against an issue.

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

Boost vocabulary skills while introducing children to an inspiring climate change activist with the help of this Who is Greta Thunberg? booklet.

In this activity, students will consider the key features of a narrative, such as plot, setting, rising action, and characters.

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Use this resource with your students to discuss a hot topic, video games!

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.

The Biography Research graphic organizer is a tool for students to use as they are researching a specific person.

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

Kids reflect on what they read with this reading log.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

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

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

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

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.

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

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

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

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 pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.