In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe what they like best about summer.

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

Young writers practice crafting thoughtful, compelling paragraphs with this persuasive writing worksheet.

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

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

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

In this creative activity, students design and make a case for their own proposed emoji.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

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

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

Looking for an opinion graphic organizer for your learner? Check out this worksheet template that helps your child list an opinion, reasons, and conclusion.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

In this thoughtful opinion-writing worksheet, children will describe the season they like best, and why.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

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.

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

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

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

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

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

Before students write opinion pieces, they need to understand the difference between facts and opinions. This worksheet teaches them to do just that by having students cut out various statements and sort them into fact and opinion categories.

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.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Encourage children to reflect on the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with this multi-page worksheet.

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

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

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