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.

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

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

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

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Assess your students’ narrative writing skills with this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 6th grade.

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

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

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

Learn how to use coordinating conjunctions and practice using them in sentences.

In this paragraph editing page, kids will have a great time editing this love letter from a Victorian gentleman.

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

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

This rubric for sixth-grade argument writing covers all of the major Common Core standards in the argument writing strand, including introduction, support, transitions, style, and conclusion.

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.

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

In this worksheet, students will use a topic and follow a structured outline to write their own persuasive paragraph.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

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

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.