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.

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

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.

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

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

Practice story sequencing with this colorful worksheet. A companion activity to our interactive story "The Shapeshifter."

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

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

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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.

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

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

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

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

In this worksheet, students will use a topic and follow a structured outline to write their own persuasive paragraph.

Organize sentences into complete paragraphs in this worksheet! Help your little writer learn to use inference with this topic sentences worksheet.

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

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

It's almost summertime! Help your kindergarteners make a plan for their summer vacation using this fun writing worksheet.

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Young writers will practice the challenging skill of writing a strong concluding paragraph.

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.