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2nd and 3rd Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Resources : Page 3

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Discover the Colors of Fall

Give your students practice planning purposeful writing!

Write with a Purpose!

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Could It Happen?

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Realistic Writing

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Vocabulary Cards: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Transition words are essential to good writing! They provide structure and organization by connecting ideas and sentences. Help your students become familiar with common transition words with this fun word search!

Transition Word Search

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Vocabulary Cards: Create Your Own Story

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Glossary: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

If your students need extra practice structuring a personal narrative, use this prompt to write a story about something that was difficult for them.

Something Difficult

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

Make It Realistic!

Students will use a comic book format to organize conversations within their personal narratives and practice the writing process.

Adding Extended Dialogue

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

Helpful Hyperboles

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Dialogue.

Vocabulary Cards: Characters and Dialogue

Practice building sentences, and fill in the blanks with the correct transition word. 

Transition Words Fill-in-the-Blank

What was a time in your life when you were surprised? Use this prompt and worksheet to help students plan a personal narrative on this topic.

So Surprised!

Kids will figure out the definitions of these sensory words by using context clues to infer the meaning.

Sensory Words Quiz

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

Close Reading: Introduction

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.  

It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

Expose your students to the wonderful genre of drama, but be sure to teach them the important key terms so they understand the structure. Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for the *Putting a Play Together!* lesson.

Parts of a Drama

Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.

Action! Students Create Reader's Theater

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

Characters Change Just Like We Do

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

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

Learn to write more efficiently with this inviting worksheet!

Better Together: Combining Sentences #1

There is great wonder in building things and taking them apart. Use this grammar lesson with your students to teach them how to construct and deconstruct contractions while correctly using an apostrophe.

Construct and Deconstruct Contractions

This lesson challenges young learners to add dialogue to their writing. Students will love using their creativity to write personal narratives. 

Narrative Writing: Adding Dialogue

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

Interesting Introductions

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

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