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Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

My Personal Expressions: Write a Short Story

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order Words

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 1

Sentence Makeover Part 2

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

Transition Words in Argument Writing

In this middle school grammar worksheet, learners will read short narrative passages and choose the transitions that best connect the ideas and sentences.

Transition Words in Narrative Writing

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

Story Mapping Group Work

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners&nbsp;will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Seasons Writing Prompt

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

These articles, short stories, fairy tales and fables teach kids about a wide range of subjects so your child can learn more about history and science while improving literacy and vocabulary skills.

Reading Comprehension

Featuring Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch, this creative writing lesson gives students the chance to turn themselves into the main characters of emotion-packed short stories.

What Happens Next?

Help your ELs use transition words as they make predictions and summarize a short fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Making Predictions and Summarizing

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Powerful Prepositions

The ability to paraphrase while avoiding plagiarism is important writing skill. Help your child paraphrase this passage about photosynthesis.

Paraphrasing: Photosynthesis

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Paraphrasing a Passage

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Transition Words in Informational Writing

Teach young writers some commonly used strategies to pace their narrative writing. Students will learn to use formatting, dialogue, and description to speed up or slow down their piece. 

Pacing Strategies

This worksheet is a fun-filled way to write dialogue about a familiar party staple: balloons. Your 3rd grader creates the conversations between family members.

Writing Dialogue

Don&rsquo;t be a copycat! Learn how to cite sources and spot plagiarism with this middle-grade worksheet.

Plagiarism Detective: Sneakers #1

When students finish reading Jim Murphy&rsquo;s <em>The Great Fire</em>, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Book Study: The Great Fire: What Went Wrong?

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

Compare and Contrast: Working With Narrative Texts

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

To Cheat or Not to Cheat

Are your second graders struggling with reading comprehension? Help them understand how prosody can help their understanding of the text with this reading lesson plan.

Punctuation & Prosody

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Make a Dialogue Journal!

Young writers will learn to manipulate and combine sentences with conjunctions and adverb phrases. This skill helps students understand that crafting sentences is a creative and artistic process. 

Sentence Scramble

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Go Direct for Better Paragraphs

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Create a Recyclable Creature

Figurative language can be difficult, especially for ELs. With the help of context clues and exposure to common idioms, it can be a piece of cake! Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the *Take a Walk with Idioms* lesson.

Working with Idioms

Quoting is a valuable skill in today's education. Lead your students on the right path with explicit instruction that will stick. Then, back it up with hands on practice on and experience in their own leveled chapter books.

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