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Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Kids' Writing Prompts

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Studying Paragraphs

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Two Truths and One Lie: Sonia Sotomayor

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Hook Your Reader!

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

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

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Polishing Practice 1

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Informational Outlines 1

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Paragraph Puzzle 1

This workbook helps third graders brush up on their skills over the summer months by engaging them with targeted practice in core subjects, including word study, math, reading and writing.

Get Ready for Third Grade

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

Sentence Makeover Part 1

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

Practice Using Transitions #1

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

Earth Day Pledge

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Journal Writing Task Cards #1

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Respond to Art: Opinion & Evidence #1

Kapow! Wham! Creative writing can be daunting for some kids, but it doesn't have to be! Help excite and inspire your reluctant writers with this fun comic book template.

Make Your Own Comic Book #1

In this worksheet, children read the article and circle each misspelled word, then correctly spell each one.

Find the Spelling Errors: Choosing a Candidate

This lesson combines students' knowledge of US geography and their creative writing skills in one fun activity!

Switching U.S. States

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #1: Literary Response

We all know the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs, but no one has heard it from the wolf's point of view!

Rewrite the Story

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners&nbsp;will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Seasons Writing Prompt

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Nonet Poem

Imagery is one of the most important tools in a narrative writer's arsenal. In this lesson, students will will learn to craft vivid scenes by selecting powerful verbs and adjectives, as well as to critique descriptive writing using the same criteria.

Using Adjectives and Verbs to Make Writing Come to Life

Natural landmarks are a source of wonder and fascination, and they encourage people’s imaginations. Students will get a chance to use their imaginations in this lesson where social studies and writing combine.

Great Lake Stories

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

Bio Poem Template

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

Popsicle Riddles

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

Close Reading Through Word Choice

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

Are your students ready to see narratives from a different perspective? This reading lesson will get students excited about discovering first- and third-person points of view.

Two Points of View

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

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