LESSON PLANS
Week 10: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
These prompts and activities will help improve your students' writing skills while unleashing their imagination! All of…
Included are worksheets where students can practice pluralizing, capitalization, contractions, and other grammar…
This lesson will allow your students to practice creative writing while telling how to catch a leprechaun. It is aligned…
WORKSHEETS
Increase social studies skills with an activity that focuses on writing about various occupations.
ASSESSMENT
Distribute a rubric that focuses on assessing persuasive and descriptive writing, as well as mechanics.
A list of suggested journal entry topics for students to use when writing. Print some blank journal pages for kids to…
Students write poems in different styles, such as Haiku and couplet.
Focus peer conferencing and make it a valuable tool with this set of questions.
The organization, elements of expressive writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a written piece are scored…
The organization, elements of description, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a written piece are scored in this…
The organization, elements of how-to/process explanation writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a written…
The organization, elements of persuasion writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a written piece are scored…
The organization, elements of multimedia report writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a written piece are…
Use writing prompts to get students' imaginations and writing skills flowing.
Write about the meaning of this everyday idiom.
Practice punctuating the four kinds of sentences.
Give children practice in identifying verbs and their tense.
Have your students write a short story about a picnic during the summer.
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Use this graphic organizer to help your students write persuasive letters. They will use a persuasion chart to plan…
Children will write about what they would do if they won a large amount of money in the lottery.
Students are challenged to write about the statements of famous inventors.
Assign writing prompts about the 1930s, and/or books that were written in the 1930s.
Assign writing prompts about the 1960s, and/or books that were written in the 1960s.
