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1st - 3rd Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets : Page 2

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.

Five Senses Observation

A lot can happen in a day! Transition words can help us organize our thoughts into a sequential story. Use this activity to teach students the importance of transition words as they tell about their day...all with the help of sentence frames!

Tell About the Transitions

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Personification

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

Descriptive Writing Check-in

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

The Ugly Duckling's New Friend

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

Glossary: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Time Order Transitions

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

Using Quotes in Writing

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

Vocabulary Cards: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Personal Narrative: Surprise!

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Three Little Pigs Puppets

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Sentence Stretching

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

This worksheet is a fun-filled way to write dialogue about a familiar party staple: balloons. Your 3rd grader creates the conversations between family members.

Writing Dialogue

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Paraphrasing a Passage

Your students will break down a complicated sentence and practice rewording new vocabulary in this worksheet.

Shark Sentence Chunk

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

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

Writing for an Audience

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Glossary: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

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

Vocabulary Cards: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

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

Fill in the Sensory Details

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!

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

Realistic Writing

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

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

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

Use Your Senses

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!

Sorting out Sensory Words

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