Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

In this worksheet, students will use a topic and follow a structured outline to write their own persuasive paragraph.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for sixth grade!

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

A magical pirate scene serves as a prompt for young writers in this creative writing worksheet.

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

This open-ended worksheet inspires students to research fascinating inventors!

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.

Young writers will practice the challenging skill of writing a strong concluding paragraph.

Your students will have fun developing the setting of a story with this graphic organizer.

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!

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

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

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

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

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

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

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