2nd - 8th Grade Informational and Expository Writing Resources

Find out how to help the Earth with our Earth Day fill-in-the-blank. With this awesome Earth Day activity, you and your kid can save the planet!

Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practice writing a paragraph.

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

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

Teach your kids about the importance of preserving freshwater ecosystems with a lake habitat coloring page filled with frogs, turtles, ducks, and dragonflies.

Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.

Describe and draw mom in this fill-in-the-blank Mother's Day worksheet!

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

This paragraph writing worksheet gets your child back to the basics of writing. In this paragraph writing worksheet, kids will write using a graphic organizer.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Teaching kids what's recyclable and what's not is more important than ever. Give your kids the recycling lowdown with this activity-packed printable.

Teach your child how to respect the ecosystem with a science worksheet that doubles as a coloring page. Can they identify the sources of pollution in the scene?

Help students plan their informational writing with this graphic organizer!

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

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

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.

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

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

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

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

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.