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You Be the Judge

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore nonfiction writing by completing a worksheet in class. In this research questions activity, students read several stories about the Wild West icons Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok. Students answer study questions about...
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Deepening our Understanding and Topic Selection

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore writing techniques by reading a children's book with their classmates. In this topic selection lesson, students read the story Pancakes for Breakfast and identify the themes and topic by completing an anchor chart....
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Small Group Shared Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss elements of effective writing in small groups. They work together to critique individual and group writing focusing on including supporting details.
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School-Home Links: Writing Stories

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing instructional activity, students learn to write stories with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Students write their story about a day at school. Students plan their stories by writing in the beginning, middle, and end...
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Oreo Cookie Writing

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore the concept of response writing. In this writing lesson, Oreo cookies are used as motivational tool and writing prompt. Students develop a summary of the events that took place when the Oreos were given out.
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Writing: Memoirs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine web sites which explain how to write memoirs and include ideas for getting started. There are also some writing examples and lists of recommended studenT books that use this form of writing.
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The Write Thing to Do

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine the proper way to write formal business letters. Students apply the skill to write letters to appropriate environmental protection agencies.
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Perspectives in Writing

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars consider various perspectives in writing and write a short story. They view a painting and discuss its theme and the idea of personification as perspective. Choosing three different viewpoints, they write a story about the...
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Math and Numbers - Cursive Number Writing

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this cursive number writing worksheet, students write the number and words in cursive on the blank lines provided. They write the numbers 0 through 9, and they write the words zero through twenty.
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School-Home Links: Descriptive Writing

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this descriptive writing learning exercise, students learn to add words that describe and make their writing better. Students find words that better describe an apple and write a descriptive sentence about it. Parents or guardians...
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Writing Sparks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this writing sparks worksheet, young scholars write a short story as they imagine that they've woken up one morning to find out they had grown two extra pairs of arms.
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Writing Numbers to Fifty (C)

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math and writing worksheet, students write 11 numbers in words. They print the numbers on elementary lines inserting hyphens as needed.
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School-Home Links: Writing Lists

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing list activity, students ask their family to help them create a list about the reasons people write and the supplies need when writing. Parents or guardians must sign the activity.
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Writing Narration

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write paragraphs.  For this opening and closing paragraphs lesson, 4th graders complete a worksheet to develop interesting opening and closing paragraphs. 
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I Can Write 100 Words.

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this writing instructional activity, students write a list of 100 words. They fill 2 pages with words on blanks that are numbered from 1 to 100.
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Human Body Group Creative Writing

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this human body writing worksheet, students collaborate with classmates to write a group story. Students have 25 minutes to write the story; all 16 words in the box must be used.
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Writing Sparks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
For this unique writing scenario worksheet, pupils imagine that they are out taking a walk and run across an animal that they can talk to. Students write out the conversation that they have with the animal.
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Writing Sparks- What Bugs You?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students write a passage about things that bother them. They give examples and tell while these things are bothersome. They explain what they would do to change these things.
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Writing Sparks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this writing sparks worksheet, pupils write a short essay giving reasons for liking/disliking stormy days and then tell a story of how they would pass the time on a stormy day.
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Praying Mantis Color and Write

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this coloring and writing worksheet, students color the picture of a praying mantis and then write a short story to match the picture.
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Weekly Record of Writing Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this recording sheet worksheet, students fill in a weekly record of writing vocabulary. They complete the date of the initial testing, and record each week and date. There are no directions given with this sheet.
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Note-Taking to Summary Writing

For Students 4th - 5th
In this note-taking worksheet, students review an example of notes for a paragraph and then the summary for those notes. Students then read a new passage, take notes over the passage, and then write a summary for the passage.
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Writing a Question

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this question writing worksheet, students practice forming a question. Students are given eight statements and are to create a question from the statements given.
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Turn the Ordinary into Something Extraordinary!

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Summer writing ideas that encourage young authors to find their own writing prompts.

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