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Kindergarten - 8th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Resources

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 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

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #2

Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words &quot;said,&quot; &quot;sad,&quot; and &quot;went.

Creating Word Banks

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

Writing Workshop: Everyday Writing

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

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

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit&rsquo;s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Railway Children

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #7

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

Paragraph Sandwich

Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month&#39;s worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!

Journal Prompts For Kids

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

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

Writing With a Formal Tone

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

Match Language to the Appropriate Context

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

What Is Figurative Language?

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Adding Transition Words

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

Figurative Language

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

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

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

Time and Sequence Words Practice

Connecting sentences and ideas is key in essay and report writing, and these exercises will help your fourth grader get ahead of the curve.

Transition Words 2

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

Argument Writing: Removing Irrelevant Evidence

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #3

Help your students' storytelling abilities with these exercises that improve their knowledge of transition words and have them use context clues to answer questions.

Transition Words 1

Dive into the magic of storytelling with this diverse series of writing prompts. Each prompt is centered around a funny illustration and they include different genres such as poetry, journalism and more!

Creative Writing

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

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their&nbsp;sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Evaluating Sources Checklist

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Figurative Language in Context #1

Writing doesn't have to be a bore! Inspire reluctant writers to use their imaginations for storytelling. Colorful pictures can spark creativity in kids and help them strengthen descriptive writing.

Wacky Writing Prompts

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