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2nd - 8th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets : Page 3

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

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #10

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #8

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

What Does This Text Message Mean?

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order Words

Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

Use Ellipses in Narrative Dialogue

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

Rhetorical Appeals With Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: Pet Rock Mascot

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

My Super Power

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

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

Sentence Makeover Part 1

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #12

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Using Quotation Marks

Learners will read four text massages and rewrite them using proper grammar and correct spelling and punctuation.

Fix the Text Grammar

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

Glossary: Explain Fraction Conversions

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

Assonance and Consonance

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

A New Paragraph Narrative

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

Complete the Story: Fiona's Bad Day

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

Create Your Own Comic

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Elaborating on Feelings

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Find the Sentence Patterns

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Gratitude Journal

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

Correcting Shifts in Verb Voice

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!

Sorting out Sensory Words

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

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

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

Text Grammar

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