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Writing Exercises: World War II, #1
Has your class just finished reading about WWII and you need a way to let them show what they know? Hand them this three-question writing prompt. They'll need to describe the role Winston Churchill played in the war, the Rape of Nanking,...
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Writing Exercises: The Scientific Revolution III
In need of a writing prompt to accent your next lesson on the scientific revolution? This handout includes three short-answer questions that ask learners to describe the effect of the revolution on religion, what they would do if they...
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Writing Exercise: The French Revolution
A great cross-curricular activity pairs the French Revolution with a writing exercise. Have your class consider the economic causes of the French Revolution, the feudal class system, and Napoleon Bonaparte as a bridge between democracy...
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Writing Exercises: Latin American Independence
Budding historical analysts take to describing the road to Latin American independence. They'll respond to three writing prompts which require them to describe or analyze specific events in Latin American history.
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Summary Writing
Nineteen stylish worksheets offer lesson ideas and practice opportunities designed to reinforce summary skills. Scholars recall events over the weekend as well as favorite books—main characters, problems, solutions, the beginning,...
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Writing Conventions: Complete Sentences
Practice composing complete sentences with your class. Sentence starters and endings are written on different strips that learners can paste together to create a complete sentence! Get your pupils familiar with complete sentences with...
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Writing and Reading Center #1: Sentence Combining
Plagued with a horde of short, choppy sentences? Banish simplistic patterns from the writings of your pupils by modeling for them how to combine sentences to create lively, more interesting prose. Then provide them with a sentence...
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Writing and Reading Center #2: Sentence Combining
Still plagued by short, choppy sentences in the writings of your class members? Here's another practice set that asks learners to combine a series of short sentences into a single, more interesting one. Could be used as an in-class drill...
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Compound-Complex Sentences
What is a simple sentence? What about a complex sentence? Review simple, compound, and complex sentences with this nine-slide resource. Example sentences are presented, and a short writing opportunity follows. After showing this...
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The Five-Paragraph Essay: A Framework for Expository Writing
Looking for a PowerPoint presentation that models the framework for the traditional five-paragraph essay? Look no further. Here, the brief explanations are clear and concise, and color codes indicate the thesis sentence, the topic...
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Sentence Fragments
Tired of reading fragments in your pupils' writing? Assign the activity here to clarify the difference between a sentence and a fragment. Enrich the exercise with information about subject and verb and some more examples of fragments and...
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Math: Writing the Correct Expression
Here are six picture problems in need of a related equation. Pupils count and compose a number sentence based on the shapes that see in the picture. Because items to be added are hexagons and circles it's a good opportunity to build...
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Improving Your Writing
As a writer, how can you show your audience a certain character is showing a certain emotion? Use this worksheet to practice giving detailed descriptions of your characters and their feelings. Writers complete a chart that lists seven...
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Look and Write
In this descriptive writing learning exercise, students observe pictures and write sentences describing them. Students write 3 sentences.
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Learning to Write Sentences: School-Home Links
In this sentence learning exercise, students read three simple sentences. Then, students put the sentences together to make a longer sentence and practice reading it aloud to their family. Finally, students write one more sentence that...
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Outer Space: Sentence Writing Practice
In this outer space sentence writing practice worksheet, students write 3 complete sentences to accompany each of the clip art pictures that depict outer space.
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Making Passive Sentences
In this making passive sentences worksheet, students are given a list of subjects and verbs. Students write sentences in the passive tense using the words provided.
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Find out just how much your pupils know about simple sentences, subjects and predicates, sentence fragments, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, compound sentences, complex sentences, and more! This review page includes...
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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
What kind of sentence is it? This can be a complex subject, so don't compound the difficulty by skipping over the topic! It's simple, just have your class read and go over the information here and then complete the included exercise.
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Don't Tell. Show!
As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.
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Seedfolks Final Writing Assessment
Wrap up a study of Seedfolks with a final essay. Writers can draft their essays by following the steps and filling in the organizer provided here. The packet begins with a prompt, includes a few basic requirements, and provides an...
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Sentence Tanglers
Correctly writing sentences can be made easier when learners are given a list of common pitfalls. This presentation about subject/verb agreement, word usage, and irregular verbs could help students cement their grammar skills. There are...
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EINSTEIN CLUB
Sixth graders write sentences showing correct usage of each word for one point per word and define the words for tow points per word. There are thirty possible points. Each day I tally the points each day and keep a cumulative score for...
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The Island of the Skog
"Students read "The Island of the Skog." Prior to reading, students observe the book cover, predict the events of the story, and discuss what a skog may look like. Students make footprints in play dough and observe the differences...
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