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5th Grade Common Core Writing Organization Worksheets

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

Is your child baffled by the scientific method? Dr. McSquare is here to help! Learn the steps by helping the doctor organize his lab reports.

The Scientific Method

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

Burger Graphic Organizer

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

Tips for Writing a Good Beginning Sentence

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

PEEL Paragraph Graphic Organizer

Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.

Practice Writing a Conclusion

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Organization in Writing

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

Write a Persuasive Paragraph: Social Media 

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Gratitude Journal

Dr. McSquare needs help sorting out his lab reports. Can your child read each item, then label it with the correct scientific method step?

Sort Out the Scientific Method #1

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Write Your Essay

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

Complete the Table: Narrative Elements

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

Outline an Informative Paragraph

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

Opinion Essay: Anchor Paper

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

Map Your Essay: Graphic Organizer

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters &mdash; like persuasive or business correspondence &mdash; and friendly, informal letters.

Letter Template

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

How to Outline an Essay

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

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

Opinion Essay: Mixed Up Essay

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

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #1: Literary Response

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

Informative Essay: Anchor Paper

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

Punctuating Your Letter

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

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.

Letter Checklist

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5th Grade Common Core Writing Organization Worksheets

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