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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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Writing Yes/NO Questions and Information Questions
In this grammar worksheet, 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 Transitions 2
In this writing transitions worksheet, 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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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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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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Featuring Fairy Tales
In this writing worksheet, students investigate a fairy tale by selecting one from the school library and completing the 7 writing activities.
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Describing How to Get a Shop or Restaurant
For this descriptive paragraph worksheet, learners 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. Learners then write the sentences into a...
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Beginning Sentence Correction 11
In this sentence writing activity, students correct the errors in the sentences. They rewrite them on the lines provided. There are 6 sentences to correct.
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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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Rewrite the Following Sentences in the Passive Voice
In this passive voice writing review worksheet, students read 7 sentences and then rewrite each one of them in the passive voice.
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Malapropisms
What's the difference between an allegory and an alligator? Fifth graders work with malapropisms to determine the meanings of words that sound alike. Five sentences challenge them to find the malapropism and change it to the correct...
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Metaphors
Metaphors open doors to descriptive language for your poets. They read the poem "What is the Sun" and record all the metaphors they find. Then, scholars change one of them to a simile. After answering two more comprehension questions,...
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Choosing the Correct Voice
In this writing voice worksheet, students complete three activities that help them understand and use the correct writing voice in formal papers.
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The New Twelve Days of Christmas
In this writing worksheet, students consider what they would give or receive if they could rewrite the classic carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Students read the story starter, then write what they would get from their true love on...
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Compound/Complex Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite a paragraph by finishing several unfinished sentences by joining them together with proper punctuation.
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Fragments--Exercise 1
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite each fragment by adding or combining words or punctuation where needed. Students leave each complete sentence alone and leave the lines below each one blank.
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Using Forms of the Verb Be
In this grammar worksheet, learners rewrite nine sentences by adding the forms of be (is, was, were, has or have) to each one making each grammatically correct.
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The Past Tense -- Simple Past
A quick review of the past tense begins this instructional activity. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to be are clarified....
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Should and Must
In this grammar instructional activity, students rewrite ten sets of sentences utilizing the helping/linking/auxiliary verbs should and must. Students share their sentences with their classmates.
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Simple Past and Present Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite a paragraph and change all the underlined verbs from simple past tenses to present tenses.
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Must Not vs. Don't Have to
In this grammar worksheet, learners rewrite fifteen sentences involving activities that some must do, must not do and ones we don't have to do.
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Adjectives Add Interest
A world without adjectives would be a sad place indeed! Make sure adjectives stay around by teaching your class about what they are and how using them can make a boring story truly interesting. Learners put this idea into practice by...
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Passive Voice Exercises
In this passive voice online worksheet, students identify if each of 5 sentences is in the active or passive voice. They rewrite 5 sentences in the active voice and 5 more in the passive voice. They write the correct passive forms in the...