Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

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

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.

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

What is the boy in his swim trunks asking the boy in his rain coat? Use your imagination and write down questions the two boys may be asking each other!

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

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

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

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

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

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

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

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

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.