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2nd - 8th Grade Writing Strategies Resources : Page 3

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

Kids help complete a fun story about another galaxy by filling in the correct transition words.

Transition Words Star Rumble

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Crafting Voice in Informational Writing

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

Compare and Contrast Information From Different Sources

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Winter Writing: Formal and Informal Styles

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

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #13

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

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

Crafting Voice in Narrative Writing

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

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s classic novel <em>Little Women</em> to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Plot Development in Little Women

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Create a Comic Strip

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

Quotation Mark Rules

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

Writing With Adjectives

As students become more sophisticated writers, they begin to understand that words have different “jobs” in a sentence. These jobs can be thought of as parts of speech. In this word study unit, students will learn about the work that transition words, prepositions, verbs, adverbs and adjectives do. Students will also explore how certain kinds of words work together, like verbs and adverbs.

Grammar 3

Improve your child&#39;s reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children&#39;s story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

Formative Assessment: Speaking and Listening

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Transition Words in Fiction

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

What Are Quotation Marks?

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Linking Ideas with Transition Words

Whip up a flurry of creativity with these writing prompts; a perfect addition to any writer's journal. Play with story cards, write out winter goals and go on writing adventures in winter scenarios.

Winter Writing Journal

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Vocabulary Cards: Order of Operations Sequencing

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Three Sentence Structures

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Glossary: Order of Operations Sequencing

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Volcano Writing Scene

After finishing Rick Riordan&rsquo;s <em>The Lightning Thief</em>, students reflect on the author&#39;s use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Analyzing Characters’ Dialogue

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #10

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #8

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