Do your students groan when it’s time to write? These paired passages with writing prompts are here to change that. With high-interest topics and a mix of opinion essay and informational essay writing prompts, this bundle helps students build confidence and skills – without the drama!
This print-and-go mini bundle includes 6 engaging prompts: ✅ 3 for opinion essays ✅ 3 for informational essays
Each resource comes with two paired passages, a writing prompt, a planning page, and writing pages. This will allow you to stop spending hours searching for high-quality writing materials. Your students will truly enjoy reading and writing about these exciting topics.
Should students be allowed to use social media at school?
Informational Essay Prompts:
How do adaptations help plants and animals survive?
What is renewable energy and why is it useful?
How have women contributed to science?
These paired passages with writing prompts are perfect for whole group modeling, small group instruction, partner work, or even independent practice. Whether you’re building a unit or prepping for writing state test prep, you’ll love having these ready-to-go prompts in your rotation.
The texts are written by the same author (me!), but appear under different names to help students practice citing different sources—perfect for writing state test prep.
Teachers Like You Said:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ashlie T said, “Great resource to use with students for writing with passages.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kelly said, “This is a fantastic resource. I love the paired passages for students to work with!”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Karen said, “This is an excellent resource to have students writing text based writing. It has resources and a prompt. Students are able to gain knowledge how to prepare and write a multiparagraph essay!”
Standards Covered:
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Hi, I’m Chloe—curriculum designer, teacher mentor, and creator behind Chloe Campbell Education. After over a decade in education, I’ve made it my mission to help elementary and middle school teachers take learning from “just one more worksheet” to wait...did we just have fun while hitting the standards? My resources are built for the real world—where time is short, behaviors are big, and engagement is everything. From hands-on science experiments to math games that trick students into actually loving review time, I create activities that are low-prep, high-impact, and grounded in what actually works.