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2nd - 5th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets : Page 4

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Paraphrasing: Rosa Parks

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

Get to know the true story of the midnight ride and the start of the American Revolution with this historical graphic novel.

Paul Revere: The Graphic Novel

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Glossary: Explain Fraction Conversions

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

Powerful Prepositions

This worksheet is a review of dialogue punctuation. Add quotation marks and commas where they are missing in the sentences about ice cream sundaes.

Look Who's Talking

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

Fill in the speech and thought bubbles as a guy and girl talk on the phone.

Make Your Own Comic Strip

Students will learn that voice is the energy, intention, and tone of the piece and then practice infusing different voices into their writing.

Crafting Voice

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Featured Character Postcard

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #2

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Finish the Story: The Forest

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Halloween Story Starters #2

﻿﻿Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

Create Your Own Comic

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Vocabulary Cards: Explain Fraction Conversions

Practice creative writing, storytelling, and dialogue skills as you create a dialogue in this comics activity.

Summer Comics (Part One)

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

Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Creative Writing: Living Underwater

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarizing with Sequence Words

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?

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

Text Grammar

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

Your students will break down a complicated sentence and practice rewording new vocabulary in this worksheet.

Shark Sentence Chunk

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Time Order Transitions

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

Sentence Makeover Part 2

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