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.

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

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

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

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

Should all people have a right to internet access? Argue your stance in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle school!

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

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

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

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

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

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

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

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.

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

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

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

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

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