Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

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

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Give your students extra practice in writing titles and headlines that include correct capitalization.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Kapow! Wham! Creative writing can be daunting for some kids, but it doesn't have to be! Help excite and inspire your reluctant writers with this fun comic book template.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

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

This writing exercise integrates both the construction of a friendly letter and the labeling of standard letter components.

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

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