Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

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.

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

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

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

It’s fun to dream about the future! In this activity, students write a persuasive paragraph about why their dream career is a good choice.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

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.

Your students will be ready to write with this paragraph writing worksheet!

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

Help your students develop and prepare a well-reasoned argument with this handy organizer! First students will choose a topic that they feel strongly about, then they'll explain the reasons for their opinion and practice writing a concluding statement.

This writing exercise integrates both the construction of a friendly letter and the labeling of standard letter components.

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

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

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

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