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1st - 7th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets : Page 6

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

Descriptive Writing Check-in

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Linking Up Ideas

Get into the spirit of Halloween, and write about your scariest experience! This writing prompt is a fun way to build grammar and vocabulary skills.

Halloween Writing Prompts #3

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Audience Analysis

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Paraphrasing: Historical Passage

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Ways to Start a Story

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Re-imagining Dialogue with Guest Characters

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Christmas Writing Prompt

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Winter Hyperbole

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

Gold Rush Advertisement

Did you know that kids all over the globe know of the boogeyman? This cautionary tale is told in almost every country!

The Boogeyman

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Paraphrasing: The Nile River

Got a video game enthusiast on your hands? Give them a fun alternative with this creative writing sheet, where they'll get to make up their own video game!

Descriptive Writing: Video Game

Present your dad with this do-it-yourself book of Father's Day recipes!

Father's Day Recipes

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

Spice Up Your Sentences with Adverb Phrases

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Movies Sentence Chunk

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Write Your Own Comic!

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Complete the Story: Dotty and the Necklace

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

Hard-Working Hyperbole

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

Zombie Writing

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

How to Write Dialogue Between Characters

Punctuation rules for quotation marks get a cartoon makeover with this worksheet!

Punctuation Rules: Quotation Marks

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

Creative Writing for Kids: Millionaire

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

Uh oh! Either way you're in trouble with this scary and thrilling creative writing prompt.

Scary Writing

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

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