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

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

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

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

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

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

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

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

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

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

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

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

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

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

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

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

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

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

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

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

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.