Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

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

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

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

In this worksheet, children read the article and circle each misspelled word, then correctly spell each one.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

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 students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

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

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

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

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Assess your students’ varying abilities to write in a cohesive and sequential manner.

Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.