As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

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.

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

In writing, supporting the main idea with details is a skill your child should learn early on. Your second grader will fill in the details about a best friend!

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

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

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

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

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.

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

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

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

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

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.