With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

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

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

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

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

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

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

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.

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!