Exercise your beginning writer's creativity and sentence-building skills with this fun family project, all about mom!

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

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

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

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

Help students plan their informational writing with this graphic organizer!

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

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

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

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

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

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe what they like best about summer.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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

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

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe their favorite place to spend time during summer.

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

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

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.