5th - 7th Grade Writing Process Resources : Page 3

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

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

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

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

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

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.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

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

Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.

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

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

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

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

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

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

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

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

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

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!