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Preschool - 3rd Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Resources : Page 3

Get to know your readers with this practice prompt, to help kids learn the importance of writing for an audience.

Writing for an Audience

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Make That Dialogue Pop!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Glossary: Create Your Own Story

Help your students get excited about choosing a title for their fictional story with this helpful planning sheet. Students will also plan an important character and surprising plot moment in their stories!

Write that Title

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Story Board

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Powerful Prepositions

Punctuating dialogue is a skill best learned early, and these exercises are tailored specifically for your third grader to learn independently. 

Punctuation in Dialogue 1

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

Preposition Placement

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

Write a summer-themed dialogue for this mother and son, then color in the pictures.

Summer Comics (Part Two)

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Create Your Own Pumpkin Person!

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Dialogue & Drama

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Snowflake Writing

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Glossary: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Hyperbole Meaning

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

Glossary: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Use this fun bee themed worksheet to help your students write sensory list poems all about bees!

Bee Poems

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

Writing Narratives with Spooky Adjectives

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Vocabulary Cards: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

Vocabulary Cards: Buzzing Sensory Poems

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Discover the Colors of Fall

Give your students practice planning purposeful writing!

Write with a Purpose!

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Could It Happen?

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Realistic Writing

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Vocabulary Cards: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Transition words are essential to good writing! They provide structure and organization by connecting ideas and sentences. Help your students become familiar with common transition words with this fun word search!

Transition Word Search

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Vocabulary Cards: Create Your Own Story

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Dialogue adds pizazz to personal narratives and helps to bring the story to life! Give your young writers a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to a personal narrative with this writing prompt activity.

Talk About the Party

Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this fun worksheet.

Use Your Senses

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