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1st - 4th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Resources : Page 2

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

Find your inner musician with this fun-filled workbook all about music. Read about the history of different music genres, and learn to read music on the piano and guitar too!

Music to Your Ears

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

What Will Happen Next?

Did you know that kids all over the globe know of the boogeyman? This cautionary tale is told in almost every country!

The Boogeyman

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

A New Paragraph Narrative

Learners practice editing dialogue for punctuation in this appealing grammar worksheet.

Using Punctuation in Dialogue

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

Loch Ness Monster

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.

Working with Analogies

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

Quotation Marks: Say What?

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Three Sentence Structures

Dive into the magic of storytelling with this diverse series of writing prompts. Each prompt is centered around a funny illustration and they include different genres such as poetry, journalism and more!

Creative Writing

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

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

Writing With Adjectives

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order Words

Get creative with this Halloween writing exercise. Your child will write a brief paragraph on the topic provided. Think scary thoughts!

Halloween Creative Writing

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Halloween Writing Prompts #2

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.

Story Planning Worksheet

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 1

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.

Read the Word Clues

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Volcano Writing Scene

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

"Dear Dracula"

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

Common Idioms

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

Halloween Writing Prompt

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Sensory Poem: Halloween

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Find the Sentence Patterns

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

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