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Writing Interesting Sentences
Help your class build their own 20-word sentences with this step-by-step guide designed to enhance sentence depth, interest, and variety in the work of young writers. They complete five basic SVO sentences using a given word bank. Then...
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Summary Writing
Nineteen stylish worksheets offer lesson ideas and practice opportunities designed to reinforce summary skills. Scholars recall events over the weekend as well as favorite books—main characters, problems, solutions, the beginning,...
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Renewable Energy Sentences
Students construct sentences using nouns and verbs from a "renewable energy" word bank. In this cross curriculum ecology and sentence structure grammar and mechanics lesson, students listen to the book Our Earth: Clean Energy by Peggy...
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Writing Conventions: Question Sentences
In this sentence types worksheet, students read the telling sentences and write a question for each sentence. Students complete 3 sentences.
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Writing Conventions: Questions
In this sentence types learning exercise, learners read the 3 telling sentences and write a question for each sentence. Students write using capitalization and punctuation.
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March Journal Prompts
Engage your class in writing right away during the month of March. This resource provides writing prompts for every day in March, and each is decorated with a shamrock. For most of the prompts, learners use creative writing skills,...
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Letter Writing Basics
Students write a business letter with information regarding specific writing mechanics. In this writing lesson, students learn to write a business letter and they focus on one area of concern. Students follow a business letter template...
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How can we write a silly story?
Second graders use the writing process and create a silly story. In this silly story lesson, 2nd graders will review person, event and setting and complete a chart for each. Students will put a person, event and setting in an envelope...
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Writing Conventions: Punctuation
First and second graders read the sentences and choose what type of sentence it is based on the punctuation.
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Writing Conventions: Questions
For this sentence types worksheet, students read the 3 telling sentences and write a question for each sentence. Students write using capitalization and punctuation.
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Writing Conventions: Questions
In this sentence types worksheet, students read the 3 telling sentences and write a question for each sentence. Students write using capitalization and punctuation.
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Grammar Test
First graders read sentences and then rewrite each one as an interrogative sentence. Students write eight questions. They partner up and read their sentences to a peer.
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Writing Commands
For this imperative sentences worksheet, students read 2 sentences and then rewrite each of them as commands. Students also write 2 commands regarding the picture on the worksheet.
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Narrative Writing
Students complete activities to learn narrative writing. In this narrative writing instructional activity students are given writing prompts in order to better understand how to write in a narrative format.
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Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)
Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments, bodies of water, things found at a...
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Nature Walk: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Reinforce concepts such as long vowels, spelling patterns, sound clusters, double-final consonants, and syllables with a nature-themed unit. Through a series of extra support lessons, learners compare and contrast using a Venn diagram,...
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Writing Different Kinds of Sentences- 1
For this sentence writing worksheet, students write telling, asking, expressing, and commanding sentences about the pictures. Students write 20 sentences.
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Writing Conventions: Questions
In this sentence types worksheet, students read the 3 telling sentences and write a question for each sentence. Students write using capitalization and punctuation.
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Who Is in the Tree? Book
Practice the word who with your class by asking them to complete the sentences here and put together the pages into a little book. Kids can also color the pictures to add a little extra something to their books.
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Asking Questions About a Picture 1
In this writing interrogative sentences instructional activity, students view a picture and write questions about it. Students write 3 questions.
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Choose Your Words Wisely
Improve word choice! Writers use dictionaries and thesauruses to aid them in choosing exciting words to incorporate in their writing. They rewrite sentences and practice identifying words that can be replaced using a better word. Flip...
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Thanksgiving Lesson
Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.
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Subject Object Pronoun Practice
Practice substituting subjects and objects in a sentence with the correct pronouns. A grammar worksheet prompts young learners to fill in the blanks for ten missing subjects, and then ten missing objects in different sentences.
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Let's Learn About Firefighters!
Students explore, analyze and study about fire fighters and fire safety. They listen to a book, list what they already know about firefighters and fire safety rules and compare/contrast types of firefighters. Each student then writes a...