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

Introduce readers to the poem &quot;The Song of Wandering Aengus&quot; by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet! 
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Analyzing Poetry: "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #5

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #9

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #4

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Sensory Words

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

Writing a Bibliography

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

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Featured Character Postcard

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

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

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

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

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Plot Development in Little Women

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

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

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 The Lightning Thief, 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

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