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Voice in Writing

Even though you can’t hear it, your writing can have a voice. Writing voice is the style in which the narrator tells the story -- it can be happy, sad, mad, silly, or more! Learn about all the ways you can play with voice in your writing with our worksheets, activities, and games on the subject, and make your fiction writing a little bit more fun.

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Voice in Writing

Author's Purpose: Easy as PIE

Give your class the "write" tools they need to become excellent authors. In this literary lesson, students use their knowledge of author's purpose to successfully write pieces that persuade, inform, and entertain.

Poetry, Prose, and Drama, Oh My!

Nourish your child's inner writer with this lesson on three different forms of literature: poetry, prose, and drama. After going through some examples of each, students will demonstrate their knowledge by filling out bubble maps.

Opinion Writing

Let your voice be heard! This workbook challenges kids to express their opinions. But more importantly, they'll learn how to support opinions with good evidence and facts.

Interesting Introductions

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

Close Reading Through Word Choice

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

Tuning My Writing Voice

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

Paint a Word Picture

Students become word artists as they use ordinary pictures to practice creating detailed descriptions. This technique helps your class learn how to paint a picture with words.

My Personal Expressions: Write a Short Story

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

There are nuggets of California history in this here workbook! The California Gold Rush sets the stage to practice reading and social studies skills.

Peter Pan and Neverland

Kids can fly by character analysis, comparative reading and writing, that revolves around a fun chapter of a classic book. Follow the Darlings toward Neverland on the way to improved reading skills.

Comic Book Composition

POW! Knock writing practice out cold with this super series of creative writing sheets. Your young superhero can flex his imagination by drafting his own comic strips.

Aiming for Your Audience

Good writers begin with a knowledge of who their audience is. They shape their piece knowing that there will be a certain kind of reader on the other side. This lesson will help young writers cultivate an awareness of their audience.

Writing for an Audience

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

Using Font and Text Features in Your Writing

Learn to use text formatting tools like capitalization, bold, underline, and italics to give emphasis to your writing.

Pondering the Purpose, Aiming for an Audience

Help your students plan with a purpose! With instruction on both audience and purpose, your students will be equipped to strategically write for specific audiences.

Finish the Comic Strip

It's a scene that needs a kid's finishing touch to be complete. Can your child finish the comic strip?

Developing Voice

Voice is the energy, intention, and personality behind a piece of writing or character, as shaped by the author. Writers will examine voice in story excerpts and then practice crafting voice on their own.

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Comic Book Writing: Superhero Showdown

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your fifth grader, as he fills in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Gold Rush Advertisement

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

Make a Superhero Comic

Get your fifth grader to polish his writing chops with this write-it-yourself comic.

Create Your Own Comic

Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

Barber Shop Comic Strip

What's going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child's creativity to be complete!

Adding Voice to Your Writing

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

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