This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

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

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

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

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

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.

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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

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

Kids learn how to "show" instead of "tell" in their writing.

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

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

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.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Children will practice sequencing a simple story in this hands-on writing process worksheet.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.