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3rd - 8th Grade Writing Strategies Resources

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #1

These articles, short stories, fairy tales and fables teach kids about a wide range of subjects so your child can learn more about history and science while improving literacy and vocabulary skills.

Reading Comprehension

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 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

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #2

Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words &quot;said,&quot; &quot;sad,&quot; and &quot;went.

Creating Word Banks

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

Writing Workshop: Everyday Writing

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

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

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit&rsquo;s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Railway Children

Let your voice be heard! This workbook challenges kids to express their opinions. But more importantly, they&#39;ll learn how to support opinions with good evidence and facts.

Opinion Writing

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #7

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

Learn Chinese: Basic Phrases Match

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

Paragraph Sandwich

Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month&#39;s worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!

Journal Prompts For Kids

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

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

Writing With a Formal Tone

Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

Match Language to the Appropriate Context

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

What Is Figurative Language?

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

Figurative Language

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

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer: Working Hard to Earn Something

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

Time and Sequence Words Practice

Get your fifth grader to love writing with these creative writing prompts. Students will practice building stories, and can find inspiration from great authors such as Jack London or Mark Twain.

Just Write

Connecting sentences and ideas is key in essay and report writing, and these exercises will help your fourth grader get ahead of the curve.

Transition Words 2

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

Argument Writing: Removing Irrelevant Evidence

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring&nbsp;picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #3

Help your students' storytelling abilities with these exercises that improve their knowledge of transition words and have them use context clues to answer questions.

Transition Words 1

Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.

Writers' Building Blocks

Dive into the magic of storytelling with this diverse series of writing prompts. Each prompt is centered around a funny illustration and they include different genres such as poetry, journalism and more!

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