Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Practice retelling familiar stories using this detail-oriented worksheet!

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

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.

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

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!

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

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 have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

Your first graders have been working hard on honing their narrative writing, so now it's time to put their practice into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to develop a setting when writing narrative texts.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.