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.

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

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

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

Use this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 7th grade to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Assess your students’ ability to revise incomplete or run-on sentences.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

Encourage learners to engage in research by offering them this Research Graphic Organizer to help guide their explorations and record their findings.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

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

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for sixth grade!

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

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

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.