5th and 6th Grade Writing Resources : Page 4

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

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

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

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

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

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Students read background information about January as National Hobby Month and then respond to reflective questions.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

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

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

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.

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.

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

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

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.

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

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

Young writers will reflect on what the holiday season means to them with this seasonal writing prompt.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!