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.

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

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

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about fall break requirements!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about school dress codes!

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

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

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

Give students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt.

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

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

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

Give your students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt!

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

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.

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

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

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

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.

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

Children practice forming and writing an opinion in this simple opinion-writing worksheet.