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1st - 4th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets : Page 3

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

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!

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

My Super Power

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

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Children will learn how and when to use quotation marks in dialogue and titles, then practice what they have learned.

Quotation Marks and Periods

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

Spice Up Your Sentences with Adverb Phrases

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Glossary: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Uh oh! Either way you're in trouble with this scary and thrilling creative writing prompt.

Scary Writing

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

Formative Assessment: Speaking and Listening

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Elaborating on Feelings

A Recipe for Transition Use

Challenge your students to write more complex sentences using prepositions with this creative writing worksheet.

Preposition Placement

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Glossary: Explain Fraction Conversions

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Powerful Prepositions

This worksheet is a review of dialogue punctuation. Add quotation marks and commas where they are missing in the sentences about ice cream sundaes.

Look Who's Talking

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

Gold Rush Advertisement

Fill in the speech and thought bubbles as a guy and girl talk on the phone.

Make Your Own Comic Strip

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Featured Character Postcard

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #2

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Finish the Story: The Forest

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Halloween Story Starters #2

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Christmas Writing Prompt

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Vocabulary Cards: Explain Fraction Conversions

Practice creative writing, storytelling, and dialogue skills as you create a dialogue in this comics activity.

Summer Comics (Part One)

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

Fill in the Sensory Details

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