5th Grade Writing Process Resources : Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

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

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

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

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

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.

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.

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

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

This worksheet helps underscore the importance of sequencing as students learn to structure their writing.

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

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

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

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

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

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

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

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