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.

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

Help your students plan a well-supported persuasive letter with this planning document.

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

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.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

A letter is found in an attic. There's a mystery ahead! Your young author can use their imagination to create a fictional story based on this writing prompt.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

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

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

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

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

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

In this paragraph editing page, kids will have a great time editing this love letter from a Victorian gentleman.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

Help your beginning writer become an excellent essay-writer with this helpful proofreading practice sheet.