5th Grade Writing Process Resources : Page 3

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

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

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

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

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

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.

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

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

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

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

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

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

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

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Each inventive activity on the board inspires children to use their imagination while completing an academic task.

Monster footprints in a dark forest sets the scene for a super scary story! This picture prompt will help your child practice creative writing.

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

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.

Assess kids' grasp of sequencing and paragraph structure with this sheet.