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.

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

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

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

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

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

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.

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.

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.

Should all people have a right to internet access? Argue your stance in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle school!

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

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