5th - 8th Grade Common Core Writing Process Resources

Give learners a chance to hone their copyediting skills with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

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

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

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

This worksheet template guides children through the pre-writing and writing process, helping them to organize their thoughts before they write.

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

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

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

With an emphasis on grammar, mechanics, and style, this checklist is a great way to help writers hone their editing skills and gain familiarity with the writing process.

Help your beginning writer become an excellent essay-writer with this helpful proofreading practice sheet.

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

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.

Assess your students’ ability to revise incomplete or run-on sentences.

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

What if you had $1,000, but you couldn't spend it on yourself? Flex your creativity and goodwill thinking with this writing prompt.

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

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

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.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

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

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

Assess your students’ narrative writing skills with this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 6th grade.