Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of American colonists and report back to the king himself in this creative worksheet!

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

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

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.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

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.

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

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

Guide student research about women’s suffrage around the world with this two-page research graphic organizer!

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

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.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Give your students a chance to reflect on the importance of learning and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt!

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe the summer climate where they live.

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

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

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

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this exciting, summer-themed prompt about a strange encounter at a local carnival!

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

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.

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

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