3rd and 4th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Educational Resources : Page 3

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

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

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

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

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

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

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.

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

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!

What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your learner, as they fill in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

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

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

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

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

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

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

What if the dragon guarding castle was just a household pet? Help your young writer boost her creativity with this fun prompt.

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

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

Where could this map lead to? Give your beginning writer a fun way to exercise his creativity.

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

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

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Got an aspiring comic book writer on your hands? Spark your fourth grader's creativity with this comic strip-writing adventure!

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?