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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.

Studying Paragraphs

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

Argument Writing: Parts of an Argument

It’s fun to think about the future! In this activity, students write a persuasive paragraph about what they need to learn in order to make their dreams come true.

What Will You Study?

This worksheet combines the five senses with the fun and interesting topic of weather predictions!

My Weather Prediction

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Argument Writing: Parts of an Argument #2

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Hook Your Reader!

There's more than one way to hook a reader! Help your students reinforce their understanding of captivating story starters with this Goldilocks-themed matching worksheet.

Goldilocks and the Five Beginnings

Help your kindergarten students learn about sequencing and science as they learn about the five stages in a ladybugs life.

Ladybug Life Cycle

When students finish reading Jim Murphy&rsquo;s <em>The Great Fire</em>, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Book Study: The Great Fire: What Went Wrong?

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process! 

Draft an Outline: Informational Writing

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Figurative Language in Context #1

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s <em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry</em>, reflect on T.J. Avery&rsquo;s decisions and consequences with this extension activity.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Trial of T.J. Avery

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

Paragraphs That POP!

Help your students learn how to move smoothly between ideas and paragraphs using transition words and phrases. Young writers will use real texts as mentors as they study how authors use words to transition between ideas and support their claims. As a result, they will have a word bank to use in their own writing. 

Transition Word Hunter

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

Crafting Voice in Narrative Writing

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.

Marvelous Metaphors

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Writing Prompt: Stranded on a Deserted Island

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

Argument Writing: Peer Review Rubric

Making mistakes helps us learn! Your students will flex their analytical muscles to pinpoint errors in multiplication problems using arrays. Use the lesson on its own or as support to Base Ten Arrays for Multi-Digit Multiplication.

Multiplying with Arrays

Help your students plan a well-supported persuasive letter with this planning document.

Persuasive Letter Organizer

Students will develop pre-writing confidence by learning how to approach unfamiliar opinion writing prompts. Writers will generate a topic sentence and  flush out supporting information.

On-Demand Prewriting

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

Narrative Writing: Prewriting Organizer

Record the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of winter! This winter writing prompt challenges your child to practice sensory description.

Winter Descriptive Writing

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

Characters Change Just Like We Do

The hardest part of writing an essay can be the first few steps. This lesson and accompanying graphic organizers will help students map out their ideas and practice crafting paragraphs. With this support, your writers will be off and running! 

Calling All Nonfiction Writers!

Knowing how to write an effective persuasive letter is a powerful tool. Students will learn how to advocate for their ideas by planning and drafting a well-supported persuasive letter on an issue of their choice.

Crafting Your Persuasive Letter

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Winter Hyperbole

Help your students strengthen their argument writing! Using the strategy of writing advantages and disadvantages, students will delve into writing strong reasons that are rooted in evidence.

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