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Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.

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Writers' Building Blocks

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

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Vampire Character Writing: Supporting Details

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! 

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Calling All Nonfiction Writers!

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.  

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Paragraphs That POP!

Do your students have strong opinions? This lesson, which features a bunch of fun essay-building exercises, provides an outlet for young writers to express their opinions.

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Tell Me About It! Writing Opinion Essays

This organizer helps writers state their opinion and organize their reasons.

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Learn to Write Stylish Opinion Topic Sentences

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

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Map Your Essay: Graphic Organizer

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

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Story Mountain: Realistic Fiction Graphic Organizer

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

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Write On! Strong Concluding Paragraphs

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

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Argument Writing: Respond to a Formal Letter

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

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Common Idioms

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

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Frame Your Essay

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

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Collecting Strong Evidence

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

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Spice Up Your Sentences with Adverb Phrases

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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Write a Cliffhanger

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.

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Halloween Writing Prompts #4

Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

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Let’s Get Writing! Character Planning

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

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Cite and Explain Your Evidence #2: Literary Response

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

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Persuasive Writing Graphic Organizer

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

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Let's Practice! How to Write a Paragraph

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

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Opinion Paragraphs

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

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Writing Metaphors

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

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Tips for Writing a Good Beginning Sentence

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

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Mix Up Your Sentences! With Conjunctions and Adverb Phrases

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

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Cite and Explain Your Evidence #1: Literary Response

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

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Argument Writing: Parts of an Argument #2

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

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Argument Writing: Persuasive Letters

Get your fifth grader to love writing with these creative writing prompts. Students will practice building stories, and can find inspiration from great authors such as Jack London or Mark Twain.

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Just Write

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

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Helpful Hyperboles

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

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