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Friendly letters are under construction! In this lesson, students will learn the unique parts of a friendly letter as they practice the art of writing their own friendly letters.

Friendly Letters Put Together

How can you *see* what your students are thinking while they read? Try reading response letters in your class. Students will practice formatting letters and learn to discuss their thinking about literature in writing. 

Reading Response Letters

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Punctuate with Pasta!

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Ice Cream Treat: Correct Punctuation

Practice using commas in a series with this grammar quiz. Can you find the sentence with correctly placed commas?

Using Commas in a Series: Quiz

In this quiz, young readers will practice using commas with transition words and phrases.

Commas with Transition Words: Quiz

Kids help complete a fun story about another galaxy by filling in the correct transition words.

Transition Words Star Rumble

Kids complete a story to help Paskiri save the world by choosing the correct transition words to finish off sentences.

Choosing Transition Words: Star Rumble Game

In this game, kids will interact with a story by moving the plot forward with carefully selected words.

Transition Bugs: Star Rumble

Writing reports and other kinds of informational pieces is a skill unto itself. It requires an understanding of organizing and sequencing thoughts, tying them together in a way that makes sense to the reader and sometimes a bit of research. It is recommended that students participate in writing their own informational essay on a topic of their choice. This will allow them to apply all that they are learning through the exercises in this unit.

Informational Text 3

The mysterious comma is arguably the trickiest form of punctuation, which is why assigned it it’s own unit in 5th grade. As students become more sophisticated writers they craft more complex sentences. They incorporate independent phrases and clauses, generate compound sentences, and utilize transition words to combine ideas - and the exercises in this unit will teach them how to use commas correctly in each scenario.

Comma Usage

In this unit, students are encouraged to write letters to family and friends about a book they are reading. In the letters the will apply the skills learned in this unit, including how to structure a letter, punctuating titles of books and short stories, using possessives (in reference to the characters or ideas in the book), contractions and addressing an envelope. Don’t forget to request a response - getting a personal letter in the mail in this electronic age can be a thrill!

Letter Writing 3

Third grade writers will be tasked with writing longer and more complicated sentences. This guided lesson in understanding, constructing and punctuating sentences can support kids as they learn to build bigger and better sentences in their writing. Grammar instruction and practical examples were written by our curriculum experts, complete with a list of recommended building sentence worksheets for third graders.

Sentences 2

Letter writing is an engaging and important writing format for third graders to master. You can support the development of letter writing expertise with this lesson that provides guidance on the structure and anatomy of a letter. Written by curriculum experts, this lesson will teach kids the various features that make a letter easier to read, and will also offer plenty of opportunities to practice.

Letter Writing 1

As students become more sophisticated writers, they begin to understand that words have different “jobs” in a sentence. These jobs can be thought of as parts of speech. In this word study unit, students will learn about the work that transition words, prepositions, verbs, adverbs and adjectives do. Students will also explore how certain kinds of words work together, like verbs and adverbs.

Grammar 3

Sentences are the building blocks of paragraphs. A sentence is a complete thought that can stand alone and in this unit students will learn what comprises a complete sentence and how to identify a fragment, or incomplete sentence. They will explore different kinds of sentences and how to punctuate them. And, to sharpen their craft, students will learn how to spice up their own writing by adding sentence pattern variety.

Sentences 3

Letter writing is a very engaging and authentic way to learn formatting, punctuation and grammar. The activities in this unit should be learned in tandem with actual letter writing to aunts, uncles or other special far-away people. That way, students can learn and practice the letter writing skills and then apply them in their own letters. It would be especially rich to include their thoughts about books they are reading.

Letter Writing 2

Earth Day is a time for raising awareness and appreciation for our environment. It’s also a time for using correct punctuation! With this lesson, your students will use correct punctuation, like commas, quotation marks, and apostrophes.

Earth Day Punctuation

Walk your young writers through the letter-writing process, including formatting, drafting, and editing. Use the checklist to ensure that all of the important parts of the letter are included and the details are polished.

Drafting, Formatting, and Editing a Letter

Help your students learn how to move smoothly between ideas and paragraphs using transition words and phrases. Young writers will use real texts as mentors as they study how authors use words to transition between ideas and support their claims. As a result, they will have a word bank to use in their own writing. 

Transition Word Hunter

Improve your students' sentence variation with this lesson that teaches them how to use conjunctions to improve the flow of their writing. 

Conjunctions: FAN BOYS and You

This lesson focuses on how punctuation affects reading fluency and comprehension using graphic organizers and sentence stems.  Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Punctuation and Prosody lesson plan.

Building Fluency with Punctuation

Enjoy fun games and activities while learning to craft varied sentences! Creating sentences is like playing with construction blocks. You can combine ideas by making compound sentences — and link descriptive phrases into them. Students enjoy fun games and activities while learning to make varied sentences. 

Sentence Crafting

Commas serve so many uses in our written language, and learning their vast possibilities helps fifth graders in their essay writing and beyond. Punctuating direct addresses can be tricky, but your fifth grader can get the help they need with these exercises.

Using Commas to Indicate Direct Address

Have your fifth grader learn when a clause is an interrupter with this fun and interactive activity that tests them on their knowledge of clauses rather than that of punctuation. 

Using Commas to Separate an Interrupter

Creating compound sentences can be confusing for fourth graders to learn, but this lesson can be made easy with interactive exercises and helpful hints found here.

Commas in Compound Sentences

Have your fifth graders master their written phrasing with these exercises that ask them to identify punctuation placement and closer phrases. 

Comma Before a Closer 2

Teach your students the difference between closers and multi-clause sentences with these exercises that have them practice their placement of punctuation marks in both cases.

Comma Before a Closer 1

Have your students practice their sentence combining skills with these exercises that give them visuals and helpful hints. 

Commas to Combine Short Sentences 2

Merging short sentences into fluid phrases is key in essay and report writing. Help your third grader master this skill early on with these exercises.

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