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.

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

Encourage students to explore the notion of identity with this reflective writing and drawing prompt!

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

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

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

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

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

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

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

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

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

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

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

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

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

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