Scholastic
Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
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Describe a Shop or Restaurant
In this describing a shop or restaurant worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer to describe the style, cost, location, good points, bad points, and other information and write descriptive sentences about the shop or restaurant....
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Fall Writing Paper
What better way to write in fall than with fall-themed writing paper? Use a set of lined papers to get you started.
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Understanding Paragraph Basics
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
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Example of a Description of Action
Read the descriptive paragraph (included) with your middle schoolers, and have them study the stylistic elements included. They'll look for vivid verbs, alliteration, assonance, similes, and personification. Before writers craft their...
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Writing Descriptions
In this writing descriptions worksheet, students write a description of a young boy pictured on the lines provided and then write three more descriptions of students in their class.
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Advanced Practical Writing
Using a motivating topic as the focus, this activity has learners write an email as though they are describing their new house. English language learners read an example letter, and then practice their own writing skills by writing a...
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Descriptive Paragraph
In this descriptive paragraph activity, learners read paragraphs, write missing adjectives, and answer multiple choice questions. Students complete 3 activities.
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Paragraph Writing-Using Coordinating Conjunctions
A resource from Pearson Adult Learning Centre, this has an brief description of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, with examples of each. Then comes a short assignment to write a paragraph (using two coordinating and two...
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"The Charge of the Light Brigade": Writing Prompt and Pre-writing
Inspire your learners to experience poetry in an entirely different way with this resource. A writing prompt that goes along with "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, learners craft a reflective piece in the voice...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Elaboration, Revision, and Proofreading
Designed to help writers strengthen their elaboration, revision, and proofreading skills, this 48-page workbook is packed with information about and exercises in personal, narrative, persuasive, and report writing.
Fluence Learning
Writing About Literature: Comparing and Contrasting Characters in Heidi
Scholars read excerpts from the story, Heidi, in a three-part assessment that focuses on comparing and contrasting characters. Each part contains three tasks that challenge learners to discuss, answer comprehension...
Have Fun Teaching
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...
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Fiction Graphic Organizers
Get an in-depth look into a narrative text with a three-page worksheet that examines a story's character—actions, sayings, thoughts, and appearance—setting, and challenges scholars to write a brief summary about what they've read.
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Word Choice: Descriptive Verbs
In this word choice activity, students will read a 5 paragraph essay about an igloo hotel. Then students will replace 10 verbs with more descriptive verbs. Next, students will use strong verbs from a word bank to complete 14 sentences...
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Color and Write
In this color and write worksheet, learners color indicated clothing items. All items are given a predetermined color. Finally, students draw a picture and write a description of their own clothing. This one page worksheet contains...
Scholastic
What a Character!
How do you know what traits a character displays in a story? Learners select a character and find list three traits for this character, explaining why they chose each trait. They then put this information together into a paragraph or essay.
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Describing How to Get a Shop or Restaurant
In this descriptive paragraph worksheet, students first draw a map showing how to get to a location. Kids then write sentences explaining how to get to a location using directional phrases. Students then write the sentences into a...
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Writing Sparks
For this writing sparks worksheet, students write a descriptive paragraph after being given the prompt to write a story about what happened one time when you had to dress in something you did not want to wear.
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Using Plural Nouns in Descriptions
In this plural nouns worksheet, students complete three exercises that help them understand and use plural nouns in descriptive writing.
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Color and Write
In this coloring and writing worksheet, students practice coloring a dragon with vibrant colors and then writing a short descriptive paragraph describing their dragon.
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Which Article? (Part 3)
Use this worksheet to have learners fill in thirteen blanks in a descriptive paragraph with the grammatically correct articles for each one.
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The Golden Rules of Story Writing
In this story writing skills worksheet, students consider 6 guidelines for authoring their own stories. Students use the guidelines as they write their own stories.
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Ideal Hideaway- Descriptive Writing
For this descriptive writing worksheet set, 4th graders discuss places they would like to go to get away. They fill in a pre-writing worksheet in which they describe the place they would go. They finally write a description, in paragraph...