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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

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.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

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

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

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

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

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

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

Students practice expressing ideas precisely and concisely by revising sentences to remove vague and redundant words or phrases.

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

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

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.

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

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

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

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.