5th - 7th Grade Informational and Expository Writing Educational Resources

In this creative writing worksheet, learners will use their imagination to dream up, write about, and draw an extra-special Easter egg.

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

Help students plan their informational writing with this graphic organizer!

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

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 sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

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

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

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

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

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

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

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

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

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.

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

Introduce students to Mansa Musa, a celebrated king of the Mali empire, with this engaging social studies worksheet!

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

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

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

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

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