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.

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

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

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

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

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

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

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

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

Young writers will reflect on what the holiday season means to them with this seasonal writing prompt.

This Father's Day, encourage your child to get to know dad a little better by writing a brief biography.