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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

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