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5th and 6th Grade Common Core Writing Resources : Page 7

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Literary Response Prompt: Point of View

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Historical Perspectives: Westward Expansion

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

Vocabulary Cards: Order of Operations Sequencing

Prepare students for reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L&rsquo;Engle by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Novel Study: A Wrinkle in Time: Pre-Reading Activity

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Paraphrasing: The Nile River

Give your students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun &ldquo;would you rather&rdquo; writing prompt!

Would You Rather? Prompt #1

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

Engage students&#39; senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Sensory Poem Template

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Collecting Strong Evidence

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #8

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Literary Response Prompt: Language

After reading Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Inspired by a True Story

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

Writing a Bibliography

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Sentence Frames for Persuasive Writing

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

Summer Creative Writing Prompt #2: The Campfire Commotion

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Sensory Poem: Halloween

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Argument Writing: Parts of an Argument #2

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Find the Sentence Patterns

Give your students some practice writing an informational essay about the American Revolution!

Informational Writing: Battles of the American Revolution

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

Informative Essay: Mixed Up Essay

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Winter Writing: Formal and Informal Styles

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

On Demand Writing: Persuasive

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Persuasive Writing: Soda

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

What Sounds Better? Verbs and Adjectives

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

Revision Review

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Use this assessment and the corresponding rubric to see how well students write personal narratives!

Writing Review Part 2: Personal Narrative

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Language Frames: Compare & Contrast

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts!&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Persuasive Writing #2: Make It Happen

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