Year 5 Essay Writing Resources

In this activity, students will consider the key features of a narrative, such as plot, setting, rising action, and characters.

Use this resource to help your students get organized. The labeled sections will guide them to follow the proper informative essay structure.

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

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.

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

In this activity, students will explore different kinds of narratives.

Students will organise and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

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

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

This graphic organizer will help your students map out their essay.

Teach students to organise their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

Young writers will practise 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.

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

Get kids thinking about their opinions! This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organise their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece. This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

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.

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

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

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

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

Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

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