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A News Story of Your Own: Sentence and Lexical Variety
Given the two-sentence skeleton of a news story about a car theft/joy ride, budding writers create their own version of the story varying diction and sentence structure to heighten interest and complexity in their writing. Resource...
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Verb Tense Stories
In this verb tense worksheet, students circle the verbs in the story, rewrite them in the past tense, and then rewrite the story with the past tense verbs. Students do this for 26 verbs.
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Muddled Words
In this rewriting sentences worksheet, students practice rewriting five sentences so that they make sense. Students write one original muddled up sentence for the teacher to correct.
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Follow the Directions
Learners listen to a confusing poem about baseball. In this clear writing lesson, students write a set of directions for a game. Learners rewrite their directions until they are clearly understood. Students make a game and...
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Fairy Tales
Students explore fairy tales. In this fairy tales lesson, students analyze the main idea of a fairy tale and interpret it. Students then re-write the story from the point of view of another character or object in the story.
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A Wolf's Tale
Third graders are introduced to the story elements of fairy tales. As a class, they rewrite the story Little Red Riding Hood, told from the wolf's perspective. Then they create a class PowerPoint of the story, each partner group creating...
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Rewording Nursery Rhymes
Third graders write a song. In this melody instructional activity, 3rd graders discuss their favorite nursery rhymes. Students sing two songs and compare their melodies. Students use the melody of Twinkle Twinkle Little...
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Riddling Along
For this writing riddles worksheet, students choose a topic, list facts, number facts from least likely to reveal the answer to most likely to give away the answer, rewrite the facts in order, and add an ending question. Students write...
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Proofreading
In this editing learning exercise, students read eight sentences, find the two mistakes found in each one and then rewrite the corrected version of each sentence. Students study the first one done for them.
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A Year (a Day or a Week) In My Life as a Shorebird
Students describe the basic life history of one shorebird common to their area. They use the writing process which includes brainstorming, rough draft writing, peer editing, and re-writing to create a factually and grammatically...
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Jack Be Nimble
Students recite the poem "Jack Be Nimble". In this poetry lesson, students read the poem and discuss other action words to use instead of jump. They rewrite the poem using their own name and a new action word.
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The Lion and the Mouse
Learners write a story. In this critical thinking and writing lesson, students read a fable, answer the provided thinking skills questions, and write their own fable.
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Retell the "Tail" of the Tale
Students explore story structure. In this multicultural literacy lesson, students discuss common elements of folk tales and then listen to the story Tiger and the Big Wind: A Tale from Africa. Students identify the problem and solution...
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Changing the End of a Story
Second graders re-write a story. In this alternate endings lesson, 2nd graders read Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, by Leo Lionni, stopping to discuss the events and predict what will happen next. Students work in groups to come up with...
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Quiz: Rewriting Ratios
In this rewriting ratios worksheet, students observe models and read short statements. Next, they write ratios to depict the models and describe the statements. Students write their ratios in lowest terms. This one-page worksheet...
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Rewrite the Following Sentences in the Passive Voice
In this passive voice writing review worksheet, students read 7 sentences and then rewrite each one of them in the passive voice.
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Spacing Words at the Right Margin When Writing
In this spacing writing at the right hand margin worksheet, 2nd graders practice proper spacing when writing sentences. They rewrite 2 sentences using proper spacing and spread them out over two or three lines instead of one.
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The Secret Garden - Synonyms
Encourage learners to think about the relationship between similar words. In the first part of the instructional activity, class members alter descriptions of characters in Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden by coming up...
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Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
Intended for Spanish scholars who already have basic knowledge of direct and indirect object pronouns in Spanish, this tool briefly reviews the two before having learners rewrite sentences, replacing the direct and indirect object...
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Goals and Perseverance
Define the word perseverance to have learners understand why it is important in reaching goals. Young scholars research how Martin Luther King needed perseverance to accomplish his goals. They write acrostic poems using the word...
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Rewrite, Revise, Recycle
Students examine different pieces of literature that have a similiar theme. They read an article about reusing ideas for television shows. They work together to create their own program proposals. They also create backstories for one of...
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"Pray, Why Speakest Thou Thusly?"
Examine popular language and slang and how they have changed over the course of American history. Conduct Internet research, use an online interactive Colonial House website to translate 17th century language into 21st century language,...
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Japanese Internment--How Point of View Influences Attitude
How does background and experience influence one's point of view? Dwight Okita's famous poem about the Japanese internment is the text used to explore this essential question. Class members study primary documents to gain the necessary...
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Irregular Past Tense
This learning exercise provides extensive experience with the past tense of the verbs begin, drink, ring, sink, sing, and swim. Your young grammarians write the past tense form of each one, use the past tense of each verb in a complete...