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2nd - 6th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt!&nbsp;

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #1

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

All About My Pumpkin Person

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Potion

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety&nbsp;of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships&nbsp;between ideas.

Transition Words Reference

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

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #2

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

Tips for Writing a Good Beginning Sentence

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Paraphrasing Practice

In this sixth-grade worksheet, students hone their narrative writing skills by practicing identifying and removing irrelevant details to strengthen a story.

Narrative Writing: Removing Irrelevant Details

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Paragraph Sandwich

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Adding Transition Words

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.

Halloween Writing Prompts #4

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

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Time and Sequence Words Practice

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer: Learning From Mistakes

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #7

Polish your writing skills with this spooky Halloween writing exercise! Your child will use his imagination to build a scary story from this prompt.

Halloween Writing Prompts

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

Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.

Writing With a Formal Tone

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

Scary Story Card Game

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Dialogue and Actions to Show Character Traits

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

Loch Ness Monster

This Halloween story starter will help your child polish grammar, handwriting and spelling skills. Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween story starter!

Halloween Story Starters

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

The Boogeyman

Increase your student&#39;s ability to spot incorrect grammar with this Sentence Fixer worksheet. Students will practice their capitalization, punctuation, and dialogue skills to fix up this set of sentences.

Sentence Fixer

Improve students' argument writing skills by identifying and removing irrelevant details with this middle school writing worksheet!

Argument Writing: Removing Irrelevant Evidence

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

Crafting Voice in Narrative Writing

In this grammar and mechanics worksheet, children will review guidelines for using quotation marks, along with examples.

Quotation Mark Rules

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #6

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2nd - 6th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets

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