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

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

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

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

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

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

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

Assess kids' ability to support opinions with this writing prompt.

Introduce your students to argument writing with this high-interest prompt about homework!

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

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.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

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

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

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.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing.

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

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

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

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.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Use a kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays!

In this brief questionnaire, students will think about who their audience is and what they believe.

This 3-page worksheet about opinion writing for kids provides a topic and poses questions to help them organize their thoughts and write their opinion.

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