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

Cite your sources correctly with these bibliography guidelines, which show how to properly cite sources like books, magazines, and web articles.

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

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

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

Inspire creative thinking this Earth Day with a nature-themed reflective writing prompt.

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.

Whether your student is new to paragraph writing, or needs more practice, this worksheet is a wonderful introduction, practice, or review.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Learn the difference between fact and opinion! Your child will build basic logic skills as they decide which statements are facts and which are not.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.