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Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.

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Writers' Building Blocks

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

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Vampire Character Writing: Supporting Details

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

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Paragraphs That POP!

This lesson focuses on how punctuation affects reading fluency and comprehension using graphic organizers and sentence stems.  Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Punctuation and Prosody lesson plan.

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Building Fluency with Punctuation

These sentence starters support basic writing skills and organizing thoughts for kindergarteners. Telling stories not only builds creativity, it helps kids learn about communication.

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Story Starters for New Writers

Practice building sentences, and fill in the blanks with the correct transition word. 

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Transition Words Fill-in-the-Blank

Help your third grader learn how to use sensory words to describe something with this great vocab-building worksheet.

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Sensory Language

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

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Common Idioms

Teach young writers to spice up sentences with adverb phrases in this engaging activity.

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Spice Up Your Sentences with Adverb Phrases

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.

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Halloween Writing Prompts #4

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

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Writing Metaphors

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

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Tips for Writing a Good Beginning Sentence

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

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Mix Up Your Sentences! With Conjunctions and Adverb Phrases

Get your fifth grader to love writing with these creative writing prompts. Students will practice building stories, and can find inspiration from great authors such as Jack London or Mark Twain.

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Just Write

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

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Helpful Hyperboles

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

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Write Your Own Comic!

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

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Adding Voice to Your Writing

Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

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Use Ellipses in Narrative Dialogue

Young writers will learn to manipulate and combine sentences with conjunctions and adverb phrases. This skill helps students understand that crafting sentences is a creative and artistic process. 

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Sentence Scramble

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

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Tuning My Writing Voice

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

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Writing With Adjectives

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

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Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Potion

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

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Finish the Story: The Kitten

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

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.

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Wacky Writing Prompts

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

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Story Planning Worksheet

This book of creative writing prompts will nudge reluctant writers towards a love of language with imaginative activities that take them through space, under the sea and into distant lands.

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Story Starters

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.

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Story Board

Entice young writers to dabble in both formal, research-based writing as well as creative writing. These open-ended exercises help kids write dialogue and exposition while crafting essays or stories.

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Fun and Formal Writing

There is great wonder in building things and taking them apart. Use this grammar lesson with your students to teach them how to construct and deconstruct contractions while correctly using an apostrophe.

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