In this writing sentences worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they finish the 5 sentence starters with the appropriate predicates from the word bank.

In this writing sentences worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they finish the 5 sentence starters with the appropriate predicates from the word bank.

Writing about and in response to what you read can help you process the text and lead to stronger analysis. Included here are four larger topics that students can write about, sentence starters to help pupils get started with their...

In this language worksheet, learners participate in a language game involving twenty-eight sentence starters. Students draw a sentence and complete the thought.

Investigate "respect" with your class. They will participate in a think/share activity in which they complete sentence starters about their personal experience with "respect." Then they view a video clip in which Holocaust survivors...

Pupils play a card game with color coded words to create sentences that are correctly structured. They listen to a sentence dictated aloud and recreate the sentence using cards. They create sentences for partners to represent with...

Use these common phrases as part of a writing activity or discussion. Learners can use the prompts such as, I have a . . ., to come up with a sentence. This could even turn into a more in-depth writing activity.

As part of a study of crafting compelling arguments, class members tackle the problem presented in Lawrence Kohlberg's "The Heinz Dilemma." After discussing the dilemma with classmates, writers draft an essay with a claim, support...

Analogies are a great tool for teaching word relationships. For this worksheet, learners complete 10 analogies using the bridge sentences provided to help them make the correct connections.

Make sure your writers have the buns and the meat in their paragraph burgers with paragraph exercises. The resource gradually leads up to individuals writing their own paragraphs, starting with identification exercises, moving on to...

In this volcano story starter, students read one sentence about some people in a village near a volcano. Students write the rest of the story. Note: the first sentence on this has a grammatical error.

In this story starter:  the cat and the fishbowl worksheet, 1st graders look at the picture and write a story about it on the lines below.

In this adjective clauses practice worksheet, students respond to 5 questions that require them to identify and fix adjective clause errors. Students also finish 4 sentence starters with adjective clauses and use adjective clauses to...

In this grammar quiz worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to complete sentence starters with nouns that modify other nouns.

Explore narrative writing by participating in a role-playing activity. In this perspective lesson, learners define first and third person in writing and discuss how it changes the mood of the reader. The first activity has pupils write...

If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing...

For this constructing sentences worksheet, students rearrange the words in 8 sentences so that they begin with a compliment. Students also examine 8 sentence starters and finish them.

In this upper intermediate writing sentences worksheet, middle schoolers compete 6 sentence starters, describe books, and take notes about books.

In this sentence writing worksheet, students complete statements about people in the past using the verbs was or were. There are thirteen sentences for them to complete.

In this improving sentences learning exercise, students improve sentences by adding in verbs to describe the object of the sentence. Students improve 6 sentences.

Explore well-known expressions that are frequently used. Middle schoolers read an article with the author's opinion of the most annoying phrases. Afterward, they complete numerous activities that check their reading comprehension. Some...

Provide these templates as aids for pupils as they work to compose summaries of both stories and informational texts. The first two frames provide sentence starters to help learners structure their summaries and include all the necessary...

Learners will have fun trying to trick their classmates in this interactive ten-frame riddle activity. After choosing a number and filling in the frame, they create three clues to challenge a classmate trying to guess their number. A...

Start kids thinking about point of view and autobiographies by telling them a short story about your morning (first person), and then asking a volunteer to re-tell the story to you (second person). There are tips to help you tie this...