These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Help your student warm up to opinion writing by asking him to write a review.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Children learn to structure a paragraph in this hands-on writing organization exercise.

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

This story starter will help your child learn about story structure and plot. She'll read the beginning and the end, filling in the parts that are missing.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

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

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

In this worksheet, kids support an opinion about school lunches with reasons.

Your second graders have been developing their opinion writing over the course of the year. Now it's time to assess your students' abilities to develop a well-reasoned argument with this end-of-year writing prompt about homework.

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

This robot soldier has found something on a Mars exploration that he's taking back home. What is it? Only your imaginative young author can decide.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

No more abrupt “The End”s! Students will organize and reflect on their narrative’s problem and solution as they work toward a strong ending.

Record the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of winter! This winter writing prompt challenges your child to practice sensory description.

Second graders love field trips! Help them share their opinion about the best field trip location while using this handy paragraph organizer.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

It's time to put on your creative writing caps! Your students will enjoy writing their own endings to this unfinished story!

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

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

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.