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.

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!

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.

Researching, both online and offline, is a skill your student will find useful in any class. This writing worksheet gives her an interesting topic to research.

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

If you could choose just one word to best describe yourself, what word would it be?

Children follow the prompts to plan and draft a short opinion piece in this engaging three-page template guide.

If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

Assess your students’ grasp on writing norms and style within the opinion writing genre.

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

Beware of walking under ladders! Find out the origins of this superstition and why people avoid walking under ladders.

What would your perfect Christmas tree look like? Have your beginning writer practice descriptive writing to answer this fun Christmas creative writing prompt!

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Thanksgiving is a special time of year to get children talking about being thankful. Use these writing prompts to explore three different types of writing on the same topic.