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

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

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

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

In this creative essay-writing prompt, children identify something they love to do, then write the ways that they might turn this pastime into a vocation.

Children are invited to voice their opinion about an issue that is important to them with this letter-writing prompt and template.

Kids practice persuasive writing with this money-themed worksheet.

Get to know your readers with this practice prompt, to help kids learn the importance of writing for an audience.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Hold on to your extra eyes and slimy green ooze -- this isn't your average creative writing prompt!

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Did you ever get bad luck from seeing a black cat cross your path? Maybe the superstition is not as scary as you thought!

Help your students develop and prepare a well-reasoned argument with this handy organizer! First students will choose a topic that they feel strongly about, then they'll explain the reasons for their opinion and practice writing a concluding statement.

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Give your students a hand with basic logic, and help them decide what kinds of statements these are.

A wonderful way for future voters to express their freedom and flex their writing skills is by penning a letter to a leader.

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

Students learn how to support an opinion by addressing opposing viewpoints.

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

This 3-page worksheet about opinion writing for kids provides a topic and poses questions to help them organize their thoughts and write their opinion.

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

In this nonfiction writing exercise, students will consider whether they are superstitious, what superstitions they might hold, and how they feel about superstitions in general.

Students will put their persuasive skills to work with this worksheet. They will plan and write a draft of a persuasive paragraph on whether or not to buy an electronic device of their choosing.