The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

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

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

Up, up, and away! Kids love to explore new places! Use this awesome travel writing template as a launching point for your students to hone their writing and editing skills.

Get into a mad scientist state of mind with this fun science fiction writing prompt! Your child will imagine and describe a magical potion.

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

This activity encourages your students to write a poem about their favorite animals! Help your students hone their poetry writing skills using this list poem template.

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.

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

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

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

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

Ask your students to revise Kenny's ice cream paragraph and help him get to the point by combining sentences.

Who doesn't love dreaming about their ideal vacation? Help your young writers share their opinion of the best place to vacation while using this handy paragraph organizer.

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Second graders love field trips! Help them share their opinion about the best field trip location while using this handy paragraph organizer.

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

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.

Students will use this fun and colorful revision technique to edit a piece of sample writing.

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.

Your second graders have been developing their opinion writing over the course of the year. Now it's time to assess your students' abilities to develop a well-reasoned argument with this end-of-year writing prompt about homework.

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.