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.

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

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

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

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

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

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.

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

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

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

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

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

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

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

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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

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

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

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?