If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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

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.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

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

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

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

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

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

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

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

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

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

Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.