3rd - 7th Grade Informational and Expository Writing Educational Resources

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.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

In this creative writing worksheet, learners will use their imagination to dream up, write about, and draw an extra-special Easter egg.

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

Help students plan their informational writing with this graphic organizer!

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

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

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

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

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

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

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.

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.

Share all about yourself with this getting-to-know-you writing activity!

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

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

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

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

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

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

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

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.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

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

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.