Fluence Learning
Writing Informative Text: School Days
A three-part writing assessment challenges scholars to think critically about schools of the past and present. Learners read informative texts, answer questions to prepare for a discussion, research in small groups, complete a Venn...
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Marking Time
Two narrative excerpts tell the same story from different points of view. In the first excerpt (first person), sequencing words and phrases are bolded and learners write down what the bold type does. The second excerpt is in third...
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Fairy Tale
Have your class take a look at this picture of a knight, ladies, and a castle to get ideas for a fairy tale. Learners can discuss their ideas for a story based on this prompt, write them down, and then craft their own stories. This...
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Vincent Van Gogh
Living in someone's shadow would be difficult for anyone, including one of the most talented artists of the modern age. Middle schoolers read an excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan...
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If I Ran the Zoo
Here's a fresh take on a writing prompt. After a reading of Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo, primary graders imagine a creature for Dr. Seuss's zoo, write a description of their animal, give it a name, explain what it eats, how it behaves,...
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Writing Topics
Finding a topic that engages young writers can be difficult. The four prompts offered by this resource focus on pets. Whether it be writing a story about an imaginary pet or about preparing for a pet, your pupils will find something here...
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Write a Story 5
In this creative writing worksheet, students put their language skills to use as they write a 600 word story that begins with the sentence, "It's enormous!"
Curriculum Corner
Guest Teacher Plans: Kindergarten
Emergencies happen. Be prepared the next time you have to call in a substitute with a lesson plan designed to meet the needs of a kindergarten class. Throughout the day, class members work with number and alphabet cards, identify numbers...
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Student Opinion: Are You Popular, Quirky or Conformist?
Approach the topic of popularity with this resource from the New York Times and their Learning Network series. The article is about Alexandra Robbins' "Quirk Theory." Learners respond to the article excerpt either on paper or online....
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Minutes to Go and Down by Two
In this creative writing worksheet, students practice their language arts skills as they complete a writing prompt that begins with a team behind with minutes to go in a game.
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Past Simple Narrative Account of a Class Trip
For this past simple narrative worksheet, students read an account of the events on a class field trip. Students use prompts to write questions in the past simple tense about the passage.
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Take A Bus Ride!
Use this “Take a Bus Ride” worksheet as a prompt for class members to draw themselves and their family on a real or imagined bus ride. An outline of the front of a bus is drawn with space for children to draw people in the window. When...
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What Makes a Novel a Novel?
They always say to write what you know. This approach is used to get middle schoolers prepared to write novels of their own. Using a favorite book as a model, potential novelists respond to prompts that ask about characters, plot, main...
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If
Rudyard Kipling's advice to his son in the poem "If" is a resounding message that echoes through generations. After reading the famous poem, middle schoolers work on analyzing specific lines, completing activities based on unfamiliar...
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Hide and Seek
For this language arts worksheet, learners write a story using an illustrated word bank with nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
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Join The Circus
In this literacy learning exercise, students use a picture and word bank to draw a picture depicting what they would like to do in the circus, then write about it.
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The Four Friends
In this literacy worksheet, students color in the picture and then respond to the short writing prompt about working together and friendship.
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The Dark Is Rising: Biopoem
How well do your learners really know the characters in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising? A biopoem activity prompts readers to investigate the characters and their traits. Line by line, writers add the characters' relatives,...
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I'm Afraid of the Dark
For this writing worksheet, learners read a story starter which asks them to recall a time they were afraid of the dark. Students write the story telling of their experience.
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Where Will Skaterdog Go Next?
Skaterdog is going somewhere, all right - but where? Engage your students' interest with this activity, which allows them to write Skaterdog's story in two modalities: first, as a three-pane comic strip, and then in a three-line story.
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My Pumpkin Patch
In this literacy activity, students practice writing about the subject of harvest and pumpkins. They also color in the picture.
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My Pet!
Furry friends are a big part of kids' lives, and here, they can be immortalized in pictures and stories. Give your students a chance to draw and color their pets - real or pretend - and then write a short sentence about them.
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Pirate Adventure: Story Starter
In this creative writing instructional activity, students first read a short story starter about a pirate adventure. Students finish the story on the lines provided.
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Z for Zachariah: Questions for Study on Chapters 1 - 10
An efficient study guide for the first 10 chapters of Z for Zachariah that covers basic recall questions concerning the characters and the plot. It also includes short writing prompts for selected chapters that extend into the themes,...