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

Motivate students with this authentic persuasive writing experience! Students will brainstorm and choose two products before planning a persuasive essay.

Persuasive Products

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

One Thing I Love

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Storyboard Pre-Write

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Metaphor Game

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

Make Your Own Superhero Comic

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

Vampire Character Writing: Supporting Details

Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?

Superhero Showdown: Shark Attack!

Research your favorite author, then map out biographical details on an idea web.

Mapping Information About Your Favorite Author

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Looking at Voice in 'Junie B. Jones'

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Similes for Kids

Help your students to show their understanding of operations within word problems.

Co-Craft Situations: A Word Problem Activity

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

Write Your Own Western Comic

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

Publishing Checklist and Reflection

Help your students' favorite characters come to life in new adventures as student writers draft new endings to their favorite stories.

Fan Fiction Finales

Students will have the opportunity to strengthen their informational essay drafts by correcting errors in conventions and mechanics. They’ll use a checklist to guide this critical step in the writing process. 

Informational Essay: Editing

Students will have the opportunity to fine-tune their writing by adding, deleting, or reworking content in their informational essay drafts. They’ll use a checklist to guide this critical step in the writing process. 

Informational Essay: Revising

This is a lesson about the immigration procedures at Ellis Island. Students will learn about the process and creatively write about what it was like for immigrants to pass through Ellis Island.

Immigration: Ellis Island


Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

Challenge students with a discussion about prepositions and conjunctions in this lesson. Your class will write a journal entry to explain the function of the prepositions and conjunctions in a specific sentence.

Prepositions vs. Conjunctions

Every name has a story behind it. This lesson allows students to  share the story of their name with their classmates. Not only is it fun, it's ideal for establishing a respectful classroom community.

What's in a Name?

Put your students' imaginations to the test with this lesson on storytelling and creative writing. After reading some classic fairy tales, students will create their own using printed figures.

Mixed Up Fairy Tales

Make history come alive with this interactive lesson! Students will have a blast presenting a "living timeline" to help their classmates understand the events of the Revolutionary War.

A Living Timeline: The American Revolution

Imagery is one of the most important tools in a narrative writer's arsenal. In this lesson, students will will learn to craft vivid scenes by selecting powerful verbs and adjectives, as well as to critique descriptive writing using the same criteria.

Using Adjectives and Verbs to Make Writing Come to Life

Help students organize their ideas and structure their written responses with the PEEL strategy!

PEEL Writing Strategy Handout

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let&rsquo;s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that&rsquo;s full of delicious verbs!

Recipe for Great Writing: Spice Up Your Verbs

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