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

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

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

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

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

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

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

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

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

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.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

In this exercise your students will color code the key components of an example informative paragraph.

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

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

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

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

In this worksheet, students will use a topic and follow a structured outline to write their own persuasive paragraph.

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

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

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Young writers will practice the challenging skill of writing a strong concluding paragraph.