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Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

Exploding the Moment

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.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Tuning My Writing Voice

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Using Dialogue to Pace Your Piece

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Strategies for Crafting Your Title

This lesson will help your young writers develop a claim, or thesis, and construct an argument around it. You may have students complete the essay by continuing the process with the lesson Literary Argument Writing: Drafting Your Essay.




Literary Argument Writing: Defining Your Topic

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

Halloween Writing Prompt

Polish your writing skills with this spooky Halloween writing exercise! Your child will use his imagination to build a scary story from this prompt.

Halloween Writing Prompts

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

Complete the Story: Fiona's Bad Day

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

Finish the Story: The Forest

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Christmas Writing Prompt

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Supporting Opinions

Become a more powerful writer with this worksheet about sentence structure created for third and fourth graders!

Better Together: Combining Sentences #2

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

Write On! Strong Lead Sentences

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

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

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

Journal Writing Task Cards #1

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

Argument Writing: Parts of an Argument

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

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

Adding Relevant Supporting Details

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Crafting an Awesome Title

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Language Frames: Compare & Contrast

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

Opinion Essay: Anchor Paper

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

Organize Your Informational Essay: Travel

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

Narrative Writing: Prewriting Organizer

Organize Your Informational Essay: Favorite Activity

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

Make a Match: Show Don’t Tell

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

Crafting Imagery

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 1

Sentence Makeover Part 2

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