Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

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

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

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

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

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

Finished with the first draft of informational writing? Let this handy checklist guide students through a peer review conference! Students will check for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Successful peer conferences are a breeze with this narrative writing checklist! Students will review their own writing and a partner's writing, checking for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Partners will work together to complete this worksheet as they participate in peer editing.

Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, guide students through a peer review conference with this checklist! Students will reread their own work and then a partner's work, checking for punctuation, capitalization, and more.

This fun worksheet will help young students as they dive into the genre of biography.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

In this inventive worksheet, children practice writing from the perspective of everyday items.

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

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