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.

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

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

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

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

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

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.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

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.

Children tap into their natural abilities in this worksheet that invites them to make a persuasive written argument!

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

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

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

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

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

A fact is a true statement, while an opinion is just someone's personal view. Learn to tell the difference with this worksheet on facts and opinions!

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

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Hone writing skills by identifying opinion vs fact.

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

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