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Writing to an Author
Provide your young readers with step-by-step directions for crafting a friendly letter to their favorite author. After drafting and revising their letter, class members illustrate a favorite scene in the book and mail their letters to...
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Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
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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 Yes/NO Questions and Information Questions
In this grammar instructional activity, learners rewrite 6 sentences with 6 specific verbs into questions. Students rewrite 5 sentences into original questions utilizing 1 of 6 specific interrogative words.
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Writing Structure and Paragraph Lesson
Young scholars review the correct form for writing paragraphs. In this paragraph writing lesson, students rewrite a poorly written opening sentence. Young scholars make changes to a closing paragraph. Students write a plan for an essay...
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Writing Sentences Lesson Plan
Students explore first person and third person points of view. For 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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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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Writing with Writers
Pupils identify unique characteristics of different writing genres such as biography, folktales and mysteries. They create original piece of writing using the writing process and then post their original writing online. They think...
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Writing Transitions 2
In this writing transitions learning exercise, 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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Writing: A Lesson Plan on Beginnings
Students 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, students chose one of the...
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Picture the Process
Students read Chasing Vermeer and relate the book to the author . In this writing process lesson, students view Blue's Photo Album and see how the author writes and revises her work. Students discuss the process that all good writers...
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A Day at the Beach: How to Keep Our Planet Clean
Students write a persuasive essay based on cleaning up the coast and other philanthropic values. In this writing lesson, students determine what is needed in order to keep the planet clean, and offer solutions to the International...
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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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Avoiding Run-ons
Learners examine how to avoid run on sentences. They look at the sentences containing run ons and rewrite the sentence on the line the way it should be written. They work independently to gain practice.
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Writing Conversation: Using Quotation Marks
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to use quotation marks in written conversation. Students proofread 5 sentences and add the necessary punctuation. Then students write a conversation, starting a new line and indenting with...
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Mid-Unit Assessment: Analyzing a New Narrative about a Natural Disaster, Part II
See it through my eyes. Scholars complete mid-unit assessment part II by writing an essay describing how the narrator's point of view influences how the story is told in the text In the Middle of the Storm. Pupils also complete a...
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Featuring Fairy Tales
In this writing activity, students investigate a fairy tale by selecting one from the school library and completing the 7 writing activities.
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Writing: Stay High and Dry
Young scholars write an effective conclusion for their essay. In this conclusion lesson students restate the thesis of their paper and summarize three important points. Young scholars then write a final statement to wrap up their...
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Pre-writing activities for improving students' connections to literature
Students, while reading a novel together in class, jot in their journals any connections to their own lives they can make between the text and self, text to text or text to the world. Various themes are connected to open more doors to...
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The Malnourished Paragraph
Students revise writing to improve style, word choice, sentence variety and subtlety of meaning after rethinking how questions of purpose, audience and genre have been addressed. They recognize the importance of details in writing.
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Describing How to Get a Shop or Restaurant
In this descriptive paragraph instructional activity, 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...
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Beginning Sentence Correction 11
For this sentence writing worksheet, students correct the errors in the sentences. They rewrite them on the lines provided. There are 6 sentences to correct.
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Fairy Tales
Students explore fairy tales. In this fairy tales lesson plan, students analyze the main idea of a fairy tale and interpret it. Students then re-write the story from the point of view of another character or object in the story.