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Begin the Writing Process
Get ready to write persuasive pieces! Emerging writers select topics, plan arguments, and gather evidence to write persuasive essays. Supportive handouts are provided. The argument chart is particularly helpful, as it includes a space to...
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Writing Using a Visual Prompt: Toys
With younger students, this worksheet could be used to encourage creativity. This colorful picture provides a way for students to guide their writing to produce a coherent story.
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Eliminate Weak Verb-Adverb Combinations
Encourage your writers to use sob instead of cry loudly to trade in adverbs for strong verbs. Improve your middle and high schoolers' writing with this humorously written lesson which demonstrates how to remove excessive adverbs.
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Pretty Plants Point of View
Young poets use Kidspiration to draw a flower, personify the flower, and write a poem from the flower's point of view. Sharing these poems in small groups will reinforce learners' knowledge of personification.
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Writing An Article Lesson Plan
Review active and passive voice with young writers. They will use the passive voice to write persuasive articles encouraging healthy diets. The activity includes brainstorming activities for the writing, as well as a homework extension...
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Fiction Stories
Students complete writing activities for fiction. In this fiction writing lesson, students complete four sets of activities in a writer's workshop format to practice reading and writing in a fiction style. Students develop plot outlines,...
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Writing an Expository Paragraph Using Time Order - Ndakinna Wilderness Project
Teach your class how to camouflage themselves - and how to structure an expository paragraph - after learning about the Ndakinna Wilderness Project. They watch a video about observing nature, then discuss how to camouflage themselves....
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Stories
Read, discuss, and write short stories with your primary class. They read a short story and complete worksheets for the story. They also brainstorm ideas for a class story and choose an idea to write 3 ideas and then write the story as a...
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Made Easy
Middle and high schoolers check their writing for pronoun-antecedent agreement. After identifying the pronouns in their writing, they then complete a table with the pronouns and corresponding antecedents, making revisions as necessary.
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Newspaper Article
In this writing worksheet, students write a newspaper article about an event they have experienced firsthand. Students draw a picture with a caption and add a headline.
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Writing Bug - Food Ad
In this writing worksheet, students create an ad for their favorite food. Students are encouraged to use adjective to describe it's taste, give details about how it is prepared and write a catchy phrase about that food.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Classroom
This worksheet provides 12 images of classroom-related items and space for writing original sentences about the items.
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Taxed Tempers Toss Tea To Tides
Engage learners in persuasive writing, research, and creative thinking. They research the series of events that led to the Boston Tea Party and create brochures that include propaganda intended to rally Patriot support or dissuade...
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Parallel Structure and Paired Conjunctions
For this parallel structure worksheet, students respond to 16 questions that require them to finish the sentences using parallel structure.
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Documentary-Style Research Projects
Show your pupils how to use guiding questions to help them focus their research into a topic. Using the framework provided by these questions, researchers explore a topic, collect interesting facts, and prepare a PowerPoint presentation...
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Sea to Sky Adjectives Booklet
Adjectives build better sentences! First, second, third, and fourth graders design adjective booklets that feature words to describe everything between the sea and the sky.
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Good Book, Bad Book: Lesson 2
An interesting way to incorporate pop culture and the elements that make a book good. Kids watch a clip from MTV Cribs, they discuss how good or bad books are similar to good or bad homes. They are all different and not everybody will...
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Beginning Sentence Completion 11
Help your English language learners use the appropriate verbs to complete their thoughts. Have them practice with this multiple choice learning exercise. There are 12 sentences provided, and the learner has to choose the best verb (out...
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Capital Letters Are Used For . . .
Review capitalization rules. Once learners have reviewed the rules, they can answer the six questions on the final slide. This would be a great center activity.
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Beginning Sentence Completion 9
English language learners choose the correct multiple choice option to complete 12 sentences. There is no common theme here, so this might function best as a time-filler.
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Foreshadowing: A Definition
Define foreshadowing for your upper graders with this well designed resource. While there are only two slides, the definition and example provided are excellent and if coupled with additional literary devices could make for a great lesson.
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Connect the Animal to its Food
What kind of food does a monkey eat? If you know, then you'll be able to complete this worksheet. To practice drawing a straight line, learners draw to connect the animal to its food. A total of five lines will be drawn from right to left.
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Writing with Writers
Students participate in Writing with Writer's, a step-by-step set of directions aimed at improving different genres of student writing. They identify the characteristics of different genres and follow a specified writing process to...
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Rain Forest Research
Second graders explore the Rain Forest. In this research lesson, 2nd graders go online to gather information about Rain Forest animals. Students print and use the information to write about the many parts of the Rain Forest. Students are...
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