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.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

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

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

Let your first grader brag a bit about his best skills and enjoyable, after-school activities.

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!