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

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

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

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.

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

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

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

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

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

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.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

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

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

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

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

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

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Students read about Yousafzai's life, then answer a series of thoughtful questions about both education and the issues they care about.

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

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

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

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.