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

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

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

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

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.

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Help young readers think critically about the organization of a paragraph using this reading and writing activity. Students will read a paragraph about recycling and then choose the best sentences to add to the piece to make it even better!

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

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

A strong hook will grab a reader's attention and pull them into your story! This organizer will help young writers try out different ideas and decide on the strongest hook for their personal narrative.

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

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

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

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

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

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

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.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Give your students practice planning purposeful writing!

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

Spellers take their skills to the stratosphere with this fun practice worksheet.

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!