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3rd - 5th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets : Page 2

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.

Working with Analogies

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

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

Quotation Marks: Say What?

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

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

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

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

Three Sentence Structures

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

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

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

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

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

Summary with Time Order Words

Get creative with this Halloween writing exercise. Your child will write a brief paragraph on the topic provided. Think scary thoughts!

Halloween Creative Writing

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Halloween Writing Prompts #2

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

Sentence Makeover Part 1

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

Volcano Writing Scene

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

"Dear Dracula"

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Vocabulary Cards: Order of Operations Sequencing

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Paraphrasing: The Nile River

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Common Idioms

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

Halloween Writing Prompt

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

Find the Sentence Patterns

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.

Writing Dialogue

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

Super Story Retelling

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!

Sorting out Sensory Words

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Tom, the boy zombie, is just a misunderstood monster. Help him tell his story from his point of view with this fun and creative writing prompt.

Zombie Writing

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Writing with Unexpected Details

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Gratitude Journal

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

Mix Up Your Sentences! With Conjunctions and Adverb Phrases

Your student can practice reading a unique style of dialogue with this worksheet on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Understanding Dialogue: Tom Sawyer

This worksheet asks students to find the transition words and to use them in their own sentences.

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