Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

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

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

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

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

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.

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

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

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

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

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

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