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4th - 8th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #1

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 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

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #2

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

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer: Learning From Mistakes

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

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

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

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

Paragraph Sandwich

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

Time and Sequence Words Practice

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

What Is Figurative Language?

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #7

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

Writing With a Formal Tone

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

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

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Transition Words in Informational Writing

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #3

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

Argument Writing: Removing Irrelevant Evidence

In this grammar and mechanics worksheet, children will review guidelines for using quotation marks, along with examples.

Quotation Mark Rules

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Glossary: Order of Operations Sequencing

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

Crafting Voice in Narrative Writing

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #5

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #6

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

Match Language to the Appropriate Context

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Writing with Unexpected Details

Give students practice changing passive voice to active voice with this eighth-grade grammar and writing worksheet!&nbsp;

Changing Passive Voice to Active Voice #1

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

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4th - 8th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets

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