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3rd - 5th Grade Writing Strategies Resources : Page 2

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

Quotation Mark Rules

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.

Dialogue and Actions to Show Character Traits

Kids can fly by character analysis, comparative reading and writing, that revolves around a fun chapter of a classic book. Follow the Darlings toward Neverland on the way to improved reading skills.

Peter Pan and Neverland

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.

Linking Ideas with Transition Words

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Meet mythical creatures from all around the world with these creative writing prompts. Tell a story from a monster's perspective, trek the Himalayas with a yeti and create your own monster too!

Monsters Around the World

This book of creative writing prompts will nudge reluctant writers towards a love of language with imaginative activities that take them through space, under the sea and into distant lands.

Story Starters

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

Using Punctuation in Dialogue

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

Summer Comics (Part One)

Have a monstrous amount of fun with this series of ghoulish writing activities. Get acquainted with famous monsters like Frankenstein, and write a few frightful stories of your own.

Monster Writing

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

Writing With Adjectives

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

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

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

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Using Quotation Marks

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing 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!

A New Paragraph Narrative

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

Sensory Words

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

Writing Metaphors

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

What Are Quotation Marks?

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

Three Sentence Structures

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

Summary with Time Order Words

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

Writing Roundup

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Transition Words in Fiction

Whip up a flurry of creativity with these writing prompts; a perfect addition to any writer's journal. Play with story cards, write out winter goals and go on writing adventures in winter scenarios.

Winter Writing Journal

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Paraphrase the Declaration of Independence

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

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Write a summer-themed dialogue for this mother and son, then color in the pictures.

Summer Comics (Part Two)

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

Quotation Marks #1 with Punctuation Pig

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

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