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Writing
Starfall

Favorite Day

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this language arts activity, learners write a story about their favorite day of the week. There is an illustrated word bank. Students chose from nouns, verbs, and conjunctions.
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Writing
Jolly Learning Ltd

My Story

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Get your class started on description and dialogue with a Jolly phonics worksheet! Learners decide what the three illustrated characters are talking about and write a brief description of their conversation.
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Writing
Curated OER

Word Family (-ind)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word family worksheet, students read 12 words in a word bank that end with the "-ind" pattern. Students write sentences or a story with these words.
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

Recognize Sight Words (Write)

For Students K Standards
Learning sight words is an important step for beginning readers. Have your kindergartners print two common sight words at the top of a reading instructional activity, and then select the words among a group of other words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading and Writing about the Solar System

For Teachers K - 2nd
A superb interdisciplinary approach highlights this lesson which incorporates space science knowledge and narrative skills. After reading The Magic School Bus, two excellent poems, and watching a video, all about our solar system, young...
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

What Happened Next? (Grades K-4)

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Explore the structure of narrative writing with this fun, collaborative lesson. Start by reading aloud a short story, asking small groups of learners to fill in key events on a large story board prepared on the class whiteboard....
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Assessment
Fluence Learning

Writing About Literature: What Is Happiness?

For Students 8th Standards
Jack London's heart for adventure has come to define the spirit of America and its frontier. Selected passages from the foreword The Cruise of the Snark take eighth graders through London's construction and voyage of his ship before...
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Writing
Starfall

Hide and Seek

For Students K - 2nd
For this language arts worksheet, learners write a story using an illustrated word bank with nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
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Worksheet
Starfall

Make a Silly Story

For Students K - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students create a story using the words given in the word bank. They are to create an illustration also.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Naughty Wildebeests

For Students 3rd - 5th
Listen in on a conversation between a bunch of wildebeests. Using the word bank (located at the bottom of the page), elementary schoolers select the appropriate word to complete each sentence. Note: There's a clue on the bottom right...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Acting as a Pre-write Tool

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use acting to help them in a prewriting activity to develop a story. In this prewriting lesson plan, 2nd graders form a character map and brainstorm ideas for their story.
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Activity
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

West Side Story Suite and In The Night Fancy Free

For Teachers 8th - 12th
West Side Story and Romeo & Juliet—two classics in their own rights that help young literature lovers better analyze different works. Learners research and compare the characters and story elements of West Side Story and Romeo &...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Camping Word List

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students examine a word bank pertaining to camping. Students study the 24 words. There are no directions on the page, but students could use this as a tool in writing.
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Worksheet
Teach-nology

The Bike Riding Moose

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
What would you think if you saw a moose in a tree? Read about an impressive moose and practice using context clues with a cloze passage, which includes a word bank at the bottom of the pages for kids to reference.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Veterans Group Creative Writing

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this creative writing instructional activity, students work in groups to write a brief story about Veterans using words or variations of words in a word bank in a twenty-five minutes time period. Students write 1 story.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Words Second Grade

For Students 2nd
In this completing sentences worksheet, 2nd graders use context clues and the words in the word bank to fill in the blanks to make the sentences make sense. Students write six answers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

St. Patrick’s Day

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Combine math, creative writing, and leprechauns in a fun St. Patrick's Day activity! Using a bag of gold coins and marshmallows, kids write a math story about a leprechaun that includes a multi-step equation to solve.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ou Words

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ou words worksheet, students read 10 sentences and fill in the blanks with the ou words listed in the word bank. Students also write 5 original sentences that include ou words from the word bank.
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Printables
Starfall

Fun with Describing Words - Adjectives

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this grammar worksheet, students complete sentences by describing words from a picture/word bank.
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Writing
Starfall

Dream Beach

For Students K - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students write a story about a dream beach. Students use the illustrated word banks provided for each story.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Little Dancers- Rhyming Words Worksheet Series

For Students 3rd
For this vocabulary and literacy worksheet set, 3rd graders read a poem entitled, "Little Dancers." They fill in blanks with rhyming words from a word bank in 4 sentences, copy the rhyming words on blank lines using lower case letters,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transition Words in Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Transition words in writing are the focus of the language arts lesson presented here. In it, learners cut out the word-sort cards (embedded in the plan), and put them into four categories: time, examples, space, and summary. They find a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Photo Essay

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars examine the process of writing a photo essay. They examine and select a personal photo or photo from a magazine, and brainstorm a story that can go with the photo. They identify an emotion to go with their picture, then...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Complete the Story

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this cloze activity worksheet, students use 10 Dolch words from a word bank at the top of the page to complete a paragraph. They complete a paragraph about the first day of school.