With this writing resource, students will not only learn the main types of writing (informative, opinion, persuasive, narrative, and descriptive), but they will also learn how to read a writing prompt and know what type of writing they would do. One time, while proctoring an end-of-year state writing test, I watched one of my students write an informative essay even though the writing prompt was asking for an opinion essay. He wrote a well-written informative essay, but it was not the kind of e