Elementary School Writing Strategies Resources

Stretch those writing skills with this "stretch a sentence" activity! Young writers will learn to expand on an idea by adding more details to a sentence.

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

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

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

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

Increase your student's ability to spot incorrect grammar with this Sentence Fixer worksheet. Students will practice their capitalization, punctuation, and dialogue skills to fix up this set of sentences.

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

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.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Punctuation Pig offers a lesson in punctuating dialogue in this playful grammar worksheet.

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

Use this fun worksheet to create a five senses riddle to stump your friends! Students will get practice using sensory words to describe objects with the help of a word bank.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.