This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

This worksheet walks second and third graders through the steps of planning and writing a persuasive paragraph, from selecting a topic to forming an opinion and providing reasoning for their opinion.

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Give your students a hand with basic logic, and help them decide what kinds of statements these are.

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.

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this fun opinion writing worksheet for first and second graders!

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.

Once students have completed their first draft of opinion writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for a clear opinion, supporting reasons, a conclusion, and correct spelling and punctuation.

How do you like to play? Choose and defend your favorite fun activity in this worksheet!

Help your students develop and prepare a well-reasoned argument with this handy organizer! First students will choose a topic that they feel strongly about, then they'll explain the reasons for their opinion and practice writing a concluding statement.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Hold on to your extra eyes and slimy green ooze -- this isn't your average creative writing prompt!

In this thoughtful opinion-writing worksheet, children will describe the season they like best, and why.

Young writers will practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Challenge your students to form a well-reasoned argument with this writing prompt (and rubric!) that's sure to evoke some strong opinions. Students will think about how much homework second graders should be given and make their case in essay form.

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

Children follow the prompts to plan and draft a short opinion piece in this engaging three-page template guide.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Get your facts straight with this basic logic worksheet! Your child can practice telling the difference between facts and opinions.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

Children are invited to voice their opinion about an issue that is important to them with this letter-writing prompt and template.

Would you rather own an iguana, a goldfish, or a dog? Defend your choice with this writing exercise for second and third graders!

Reflect on the Easter holiday with a fun writing prompt. Budding writers will put their writing skills and their creativity to the test!

Sort out your facts with this comprehension exercise! Kids will learn to tell the difference between facts and opinions as they read each statement.