This expository writing graphic organizer worksheet helps 4th grade students plan an informational essay with boxes for a topic, introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion — an easy, no-prep way to organize ideas before drafting.

Using thisWriting an Introduction Paragraph Worksheet, your students will write down their topic in the box provided. They will then use the lines

Using this Command of the Conventions Writing Checklist Worksheet, students can check their writing for capitalization, punctuation, & spelling.

Using Explain It All Informative Explanatory Writing Activity, students write informative and explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

Using this Supporting an Opinion Worksheet, students read a book about a specific topic to cite evidence from the text to support their opinion.

Using How to Worksheet, students write a series of steps that teach someone how to do a particular task with a partner.

Using Publish It Writing on the the Computer Activity, students use technology to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

Using this Find It In The Text Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Using W.4.4 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, studentsproduce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Using this Digital Dilemma Research Activity, students use digital tools to follow directions on a task card.

Using this Writing Tweets Activity, students choose a prompt about the included story "Making a Milk or Juice Carton Bird Feeder" and produce a writing sample.

Using this Take Note Writing Activity, students use a variety of print and digital resources to research about a topic.

This Now Presenting - Report on a Topic Activity is a fun way for students to learn about Summarizing and presentations!

Using this Help From Other Author's Activity helps, students collect story elements from literary or informational texts to write their own story.

Using W.4.2 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas andinformation clearly.

Using W.4.5 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

Using W.4.6 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

Using this Get to the Point PowerPoint Activity, students learn to include multimedia components such as graphics, sounds, and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Using this Author At Work Writing Checklist Activity, students use writing checklists when writing narratives, informative essays, and opinion essays.

Using this Why oh Why Story Details Activity, students answer the questions "What happened?" and "why did it happen?" while citing their textual evidence.