Save time by downloading a template for peer editing. Included, you will find a one-form-per-page format and a four-forms-per-page format.

Get to know your students with this project. Each individual writes an autobiography that is at least seven pages long with major facts, visual facts, focal stories, and chronology. The lesson includes a point breakdown for the...

Students practice connecting words into phrases. They use the Declaration of Independence to help them connect phrases.

Young scholars read the first part of the Declaration of Independence and mark the words they don't know. First, they try to guess what the words mean by looking at the them in context, and then they look up the words in a dictionary.

A set of very useful posters (in PDF) describing different types of non-fiction texts is here for you. While there isn't an activity, per se, in these worksheets, they could be used as a handy reference for learners who are engaging in...

Play with words and word meanings involving the suffix -er. After reading a sample list of words, young readers look up each one in the dictionary to decide which words refer to people, animals, or objects, or have three or more...

Need a key to unlock writer's block? Introduce your writers to four easy steps that will release them from their mental prison. The brainstorming worksheet, designed to set free their imaginations, even has an answer key.

Happy birthday! Celebrate everyone's birthday with this writing activity, which prompts seventh graders to research historical events in a country at the time of their birth to create an essay. Working in pairs, they proofread each...

Fourth and fifth graders practice the skill of organizing their writing to convey a central idea by sorting 14 facts about the dogwood tree into four categories of facts. The categories, which are written on the board, are; Governmental...

Fourth graders discuss the difference between main ideas and supporting details. They use large placement cards made by the teacher with main idea and supporting detail statements on them to practice.

Third graders read and discuss the selection "Paul Revere's Ride" (included with the lesson). Students imagine they live in one of the villages that Paul Revere stopped. They are awakened by his knock on the door. Students write an essay...

In this writing rubric worksheet, students will be guided in the self assessment process. On a scale of one to four, the students will analyze the criteria in deciding where their writing falls on the given rubric.

Students gather information on a kelp forest and identify species in that ecosystem.  In this underwater ecosystem lesson students gather data, give an oral presentation and create a poster.

Transitions are the focus of a presentation that includes information about the importance of transitions and types of transitions. Included is a list of commonly used transition words.

Students write, format, enter, save, revise, edit a full block style letter with open punctuation for printing. They produce a personalized letterhead using a computer and access information from the Internet using a variety of search...

For this easily confused words worksheet, students practice using affect and effect, can and may, learn and teach, and let and leave as they answer 29 short answer and multiple choice questions.

Learners practice various comprehension strategies to generate the main idea of the text. They encounter unfamiliar concepts and new vocabulary in their quest of the main idea in "Watson's Goes to Burmingham." The Five W's (What, Where,...

Fifth graders write a narrative essay describing what happened in the classroom after a nystery person has visited.

Students review the meaning of comprehension as it refers to what they have read and how they remember information. They discover the meaning of summarization including the steps they should follow. They then predict what an article...

In this writing worksheet, students read 11 criteria for an acceptable paper. Students evaluate themselves, checking yes or no for each. Students can use this list when editing their work.

Students conduct online research and incorporate graphics and maps into a Powerpoint presentation that details life at the McLean train yard in its heyday.

In this grade three language worksheet, pupils read several short passages, completing a multiple choice question for each, 25 total. 

Fourth graders listen to the teacher discuss the definition of "Summary." They read a story aloud with their classmates. After finishing the story, 4th graders are asked to choose the best summary statement.

Sixth graders practice visualizing and understanding that visualization is an important comprehension strategy. They share their visualization of the story through original artwork and determine that ideas, and cultural settings can...