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3rd - 8th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Resources : Page 3

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their&nbsp;sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Evaluating Sources Checklist

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

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

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

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

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

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 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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #4

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

Summary with Time Order Words

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Mix Up Your Sentences! With Conjunctions and Adverb Phrases

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

Vary Sentence Patterns

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

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

Volcano Writing Scene

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #9

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

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

Quotation Marks: Say What?

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

Crafting Voice in Informational Writing

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

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

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

Use Ellipses in Narrative Dialogue

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Paraphrasing a Passage

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

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

Formative Assessment: Speaking and Listening

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

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

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

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

Gratitude Journal

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

Sorting out Sensory Words

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