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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

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

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.

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

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

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

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

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.

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

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

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

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.