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

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

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Paraphrase the Declaration of Independence

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

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

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

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

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners&nbsp;will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Seasons Writing Prompt

When writing an&nbsp;informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Research Graphic Organizer: Note-Taking

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #11

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

What Are Quotation Marks?

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

Three Sentence Structures

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Potion

Learners practice editing dialogue for punctuation in this appealing grammar worksheet.

Using Punctuation in Dialogue

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

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

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

Vocabulary Cards: Order of Operations Sequencing

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

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

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

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