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Writing Conversation: Using Quotation Marks
For this language arts worksheet, young scholars learn to use quotation marks in written conversation. Students proofread 5 sentences and add the necessary punctuation. Then young scholars write a conversation, starting a new line and...
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Block Buster
Here is a unique and innovative game which will help your charges learn the important skill of proofreading and editing their own writing. The class is divided up into groups, and each group uses actual samples of writing from students...
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Writing Sentences Lesson Plan
Students explore first person and third person points of view. In this perspective lesson, students identify first person and third person points of view in literature they have read. Students rewrite stories from different perspectives.
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Advanced Sentence Correction 1
Applying grammar rules to everyday language is an important skill for students to master. Using this activity, learners can practice forming grammatically-correct sentences.
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Describing How to Get a Shop or Restaurant
For this descriptive paragraph worksheet, students first draw a map showing how to get to a location. Students then write sentences explaining how to get to a location using directional phrases. Students then write the sentences into a...
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Counteracting Media Stereotyping
Discuss media stereotypes with your emerging consumers. They view a television program to identify gender bias. After discussing the clip as a class, each learner writes a story showing more equitable roles. Or consider having them...
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The Present Is Perfect: Using Present Perfect Tense
Your developing language users rewrite 10 sentences by changing the underlined verbs to present perfect tense verbs with one of the helping verbs: have, has, or had. Resource contains explanatory material as well as a practice...
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Clothes
For this parts of speech online interactive worksheet, students choose the appropriate multiple choice word to describe 9 pictures of clothing. Students type in a word to describe 3 additional pictures of clothing. Students fill in 28...
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Riddling Along
In this writing riddles worksheet, students choose a topic, list facts, number facts from least likely to reveal the answer to most likely to give away the answer, rewrite the facts in order, and add an ending question. Students write...
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Infinitive of Purpose
In this online/interactive rewriting sentences worksheet, students read example sentences to reconstruct sentences using infinitive of purpose. Students write six sentences.
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Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 1
In this writing exercise, students are given a series of sentences and asked to rewrite them to eliminate wordy phrases and clauses, repetition and passive voice.
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Inquiring Minds: News and Philanthropy
Students study newspaper articles and rewrite events from literature into news stories about kindness. In this news article lesson, students read sentences from newspaper articles and identify the purpose of the article. Students...
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Retell the "Tail" of the Tale
Students explore story structure. In this multicultural literacy lesson, students discuss common elements of folk tales and then listen to the story Tiger and the Big Wind: A Tale from Africa. Students identify the problem and solution...
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Connectors of Addition and Contrast
For this conjunction interactive worksheet, students read pairs of sentences and decide which ones express similar ideas and which show contrasting ideas. They use the correct connectors from the drop down menus in 10 sentences. They...
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Drill with Modals
For this grammar worksheet, students practice rewriting sentences from one tense to another as shown in the example given. Students rewrite four other sentences utilizing the verb must.
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Total English Advanced: Use of Would and Childhood Memories
For this childhood memories worksheet, students practice use of the word would as they complete a graphic organizer and then rewrite 8 sentences using would.
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Writing: A Lesson Plan on Beginnings
Pupils rewrite the beginning of a story. In this writing instructional activity, students read stories from Spooky South by S.E. Schlosser in order to gain exposure to different ways to begin a story. Then, pupils chose one of the three...
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Going on--Present Continuous Tense
For this present continuous tense worksheet, students change the tense in 6 sentences to present continuous, rewrite the 6 sentences into 6 questions, and read 7 sentences and underline the sentences which use the present continuous...
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Writing Transitions 2
In this writing transitions activity, students sharpen their writing skills as they read several examples and they rewrite 7 sentences using therefore, consequently, as a result, thus, and for this reason appropriately.
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Grammar Mistakes Quiz
In this proofreading skills worksheet, students examine 20 sentences and rewrite each of them correctly. Students also write 4 original sentences.
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Fifth Grade Editing I Worksheet
In this language arts instructional activity, 5th graders rewrite each of 10 sentences correctly. They insert proper capitalization and punctuation marks in each sentence.
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Fragments
In this grammar instructional activity, learners rewrite and finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with appropriate punctuation.
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What If...?
Students research history and complete a news report about their research. For this history and research skills lesson, students select a journalistic job and select an event from history. Students work in teams to create a broadcast of...
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Can You Haiku?
Everyone loves haikus! They're short, quick, and fun to write! Analyze the rules and conventions of haiku. Readers interpret examples of haiku and develop a vocabulary for writing haiku. Then they compose a haiku based on a personal...