Boost your child's writing skills with these simple sentence starters for beginning writers!

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

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

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.

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

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.

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.

Flex those writing skills with these clever prompts. Practice stretching sentences by adding details of who, what, when and where!

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

Summer writing can start with drawing something fun, or thinking about their favorite parts of warm days. This worksheet is a fun quick-start for ideas.

This laugh-out-loud worksheet is sure to inspire your first grader to write a silly story.

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

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.

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?

This research, drawing, and writing worksheet is a fun introduction to informational and science writing.

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