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

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

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.

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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.

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.