Search Printable 3rd Grade Writing Essay Writing Worksheets

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

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

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

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

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

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

Use this resource to assess your students’ skills when it comes to responding to narrative prompts.

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

In this worksheet, kids support an opinion about school lunches with reasons.

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

Second graders love telling stories! Help them plan their own small moment stories using this handy graphic organizer.

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

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

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.