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

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.

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

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

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

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

Whether your student is new to paragraph writing, or needs more practice, this worksheet is a wonderful introduction, practice, or review.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

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

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

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

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

Children draw on their own experiences to craft a personal narrative in this essay-writing worksheet.

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

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

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for eighth grade!

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.

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

This research, drawing, and writing worksheet is a fun introduction to informational and science writing.

From making a list of supplies to drawing a picture of the steps, this worksheet guides kids through the first phase of the writing process.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.