3rd and 4th Grade Writing Strategies Worksheets

Stretch those writing skills with this "stretch a sentence" activity! Young writers will learn to expand on an idea by adding more details to a sentence.

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

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

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.

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

Punctuation Pig offers a lesson in punctuating dialogue in this playful grammar worksheet.

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

In this grammar and mechanics worksheet, children will review guidelines for using quotation marks, along with examples.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

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

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Got questions about quotations marks? No problem! This worksheet will help your child build his grammar and punctuation skills.

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

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

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

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.

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

This worksheet bundle rounds up some writing prompts for your child to explore different writing styles.

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

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