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2nd - 8th Grade Writing Strategies Educational Resources : Page 2

Punctuating dialogue is a skill best learned early, and these exercises are tailored specifically for your third grader to learn independently. 

Punctuation in Dialogue 1

Letter writing is an engaging and important writing format for third graders to master. You can support the development of letter writing expertise with this lesson that provides guidance on the structure and anatomy of a letter. Written by curriculum experts, this lesson will teach kids the various features that make a letter easier to read, and will also offer plenty of opportunities to practice.

Letter Writing 1

As students become more sophisticated writers, they begin to understand that words have different “jobs” in a sentence. These jobs can be thought of as parts of speech. In this word study unit, students will learn about the work that transition words, prepositions, verbs, adverbs and adjectives do. Students will also explore how certain kinds of words work together, like verbs and adverbs.

Grammar 3

Have your fifth grader use sentence details and clues to determine the best transition word to link two sentences. 

Transition Words 3

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

Use Ellipses in Narrative Dialogue

Teach your fourth grader how to properly punctuate dialogue with these exercises that focus on quotation marks as incorporated in various sentence formats. 

Punctuation in Dialogue 2

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, reflect on T.J. Avery&rsquo;s decisions and consequences with this extension activity.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Trial of T.J. Avery

Have your fifth grader fill in the punctuation mark blanks in these exercises that are built specifically to teach and solidify key concepts.

Punctuation in Dialogue 3

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #3

The mysterious comma is arguably the trickiest form of punctuation, which is why assigned it it’s own unit in 5th grade. As students become more sophisticated writers they craft more complex sentences. They incorporate independent phrases and clauses, generate compound sentences, and utilize transition words to combine ideas - and the exercises in this unit will teach them how to use commas correctly in each scenario.

Comma Usage

Use this discussion guide to engage learners in meaningful dialogue after they&#39;ve read chapters 14&ndash;18 of Suzanne Collins&rsquo;s The Hunger Games.&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Discussion Guide #4

Students will have the opportunity to strengthen their informational essay drafts by correcting errors in conventions and mechanics. They’ll use a checklist to guide this critical step in the writing process. 

Informational Essay: Editing

Students begin their informational writing process by gathering information through research. They will use a graphic organizer to record important information and sources and reflect on how to present the information.

Informational Essay: Prewriting With Research

Get practice identifying time order words with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Identify Time Order Words

Prepare for a world of writing with this packet of exercises, tools and tips. Students learn a few ways to spice up writing, like sensory words, action verbs, supporting details, and point of view.

Narrative Writing

Let your voice be heard! This workbook challenges kids to express their opinions. But more importantly, they'll learn how to support opinions with good evidence and facts.

Opinion Writing

Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month's worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!

Journal Prompts For Kids

It&#39;s a scene that needs a kid&#39;s finishing touch to be complete. Can your child finish the comic strip?

Finish the Comic Strip

What&#39;s going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child&#39;s creativity to be complete!

Barber Shop Comic Strip

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety&nbsp;of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships&nbsp;between ideas.

Transition Words Reference

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

Tips for Writing a Good Beginning Sentence

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #7

These articles, short stories, fairy tales and fables teach kids about a wide range of subjects so your child can learn more about history and science while improving literacy and vocabulary skills.

Reading Comprehension

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

Writing Instructions

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt!&nbsp;

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #1

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #2

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #6

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

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