A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

Practice creative writing with some simple sentence prompts. Fill in the holes to describe what it's like to swim in the ocean.

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

A strong hook will capture a reader's attention and make them want to know more! In this activity, students will identify four different ways to hook a reader into a story.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

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.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

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

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

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

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

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

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

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

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

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

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

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

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

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

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

Get the scoop on your stories with this ice cream graphic organizer!

This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.