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3rd - 6th Grade Mechanics Educational Resources : Page 11

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Reading Response Letter Format

Learners will embark on a top-level grammar and mechanics mission in this fun contractions worksheet.

Shrink Ray Contractions: Mission #1

Writing reports and other kinds of informational pieces is a skill unto itself. It requires an understanding of organizing and sequencing thoughts, tying them together in a way that makes sense to the reader and sometimes a bit of research. It is recommended that students participate in writing their own informational essay on a topic of their choice. This will allow them to apply all that they are learning through the exercises in this unit.

Informational Text 3

Assess students' understanding of pronouns with this comprehensive review.

Let’s Go Down to Pronoun Town

A sentence stands alone to express a complete thought. Surprisingly, most 5th graders still need to revisit the concepts of complete sentences and fragments and how to punctuate the four different kinds of sentences. Combining shorter sentences into longer, more complex sentences is another skill that requires practice. Students get all of that needed review in this unit, in addition to learning how to identify and fix run-on sentences.

Sentences 4

Words are like legos - they can have interchangeable parts. In this unit students will study the construction of words including roots, prefixes and suffixes. Students will also explore how to modify words to make them possessive, a different part of speech and adjust to signify singular and plural. Understanding the basic building blocks of words, will increase students’ vocabulary, improve their spelling and add strategies for decoding unfamiliar words.

Word Structure 2

Sentences are the building blocks of paragraphs. A sentence is a complete thought that can stand alone and in this unit students will learn what comprises a complete sentence and how to identify a fragment, or incomplete sentence. They will explore different kinds of sentences and how to punctuate them. And, to sharpen their craft, students will learn how to spice up their own writing by adding sentence pattern variety.

Sentences 3

Mastering pronouns enables students' writing to be more sophisticated. They are able to construct more complex sentences and express ideas more original ways. This short unit focuses on possessive, indefinite and reflexive pronouns, in addition to pronoun and antecedent agreement.

Pronouns

Need a little punctuation practice? Here's a great worksheet that will challenge your child's grammar skills, and  introduce him to some classic literature!

Punctuation: A Christmas Carol

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Adding Voice to Your Writing

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

Naming Narratives and Nonfiction

In this unit, students are encouraged to write letters to family and friends about a book they are reading. In the letters the will apply the skills learned in this unit, including how to structure a letter, punctuating titles of books and short stories, using possessives (in reference to the characters or ideas in the book), contractions and addressing an envelope. Don’t forget to request a response - getting a personal letter in the mail in this electronic age can be a thrill!

Letter Writing 3

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

A Mighty Title

Searching for a worksheet to help your kid with punctuation? This printable will help her decide how to end sentences using the proper punctuation.

On the Mark!

Shrink Ray Contractions: Mission #4

Letter writing is a very engaging and authentic way to learn formatting, punctuation and grammar. The activities in this unit should be learned in tandem with actual letter writing to aunts, uncles or other special far-away people. That way, students can learn and practice the letter writing skills and then apply them in their own letters. It would be especially rich to include their thoughts about books they are reading.

Letter Writing 2

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Reading Response Letter Checklist

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Terminal Punctuation

Does your student need punctuation practice? Help her work on grammar and introduce her to some classic literature in the process.

Punctuation: The Wind in the Willows

This sheet will review the ways that writers can play with different text and font features for a variety of effects.

Utilizing Text and Font Features in Your Writing

Here&#39;s a fun way to learn a basic part of speech: nouns. In this worksheet your child will think of Halloween related nouns!

Halloween Nouns

Don't let grammar get ghoulish this Halloween! Practice using punctuation with a spooky worksheet.

Using Punctuation this Halloween

Learners will use commas, periods, and question marks to help a witch add the correct punctuation to a note in this grammar and mechanics worksheet.

Halloween Punctuation

Searching for a worksheet to help your third grader with contractions? This printable is perfect for young readers working on vocabulary skills.

Construction Zone

In nonfiction, bolding and underlining are frequently used to help words stand out. In fiction, authors can use ALL CAPS to add emphasis to a character’s voice.

All Caps for Emphasis

Shrink Ray Contractions: Mission #3

Practice touch typing periods, commas, colons, and semicolons in this challenging punctuation typing game.

Typing Symbols with Gem Miner (Part Two)

Your students won’t be tricked when they discover digital tools that help them spell homophones and plurals correctly. Your students will also learn about times when they shouldn’t take an automatic spelling suggestion on their devices! 

Tricky Words

Improve your students' sentence variation with this lesson that teaches them how to use conjunctions to improve the flow of their writing. 

Conjunctions: FAN BOYS and You

Nourish your child's inner writer with this lesson on three different forms of literature: poetry, prose, and drama. After going through some examples of each, students will demonstrate their knowledge by filling out bubble maps.

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