This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

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.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Help struggling writers find their confidence with these sentence starters! Kids will use the prompts to help them get started telling a story.

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Children draw on their own experiences to craft a personal narrative in this essay-writing worksheet.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

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

Personal narrative writing is all about you! Get kids thinking and writing about their personal experiences and how they felt about them.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Use these icebreaker questions to help classmates make connections, remember names, and find new friends.

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

This creative worksheet encourages learners to write and draw all about their summer.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Learners practice their creative writing with this fun, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a costume with a superpower twist!

Build great sentence writing skills with these sentence prompts for kids.

What if Peter Pan and Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" met? Your child gets to decide what happens next and write a story based on this fun coloring page scene!

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

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

Using the brothers from Ender's Game, our writing worksheet gives your child the opportunity to examine any rivalries between him and his siblings or friends.

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