Give your students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt!

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

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

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

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

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

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about giving middle school students access to recess!

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.

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

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

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

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.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

Children will write a checklist of the things they are most excited to do this summer using this printable template. 

Whether it’s a poet, inventor, or famous scientist, this worksheet will help learners gather and organize important information.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

This graphic organizer is a helpful tool for learners to gather and organize key information as they research an important person of their choice.

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

What if you could make up your own animal species? Your child will have fun as she uses her imagination to hone her writing skills.