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

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

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 a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

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

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

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

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

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.

Help students track their thinking in the beginning, middle, and end of learning new concepts.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

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

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

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

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.

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