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3rd - 7th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Resources : Page 3

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

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

Writing a Bibliography

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #10

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

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer: Working Hard to Earn Something

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

Sensory Words

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Crafting Voice in Informational Writing

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #12

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

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

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #8

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

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

Kids complete a story to help Paskiri save the world by choosing the correct transition words to finish off sentences.

Choosing Transition Words: Star Rumble Game

After finishing Rick Riordan&rsquo;s <em>The Lightning Thief</em>, students reflect on the author&#39;s use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Analyzing Characters’ Dialogue

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

My Super Power

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

Character Changes Order

﻿﻿Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

Create Your Own Comic

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

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

Common Idioms

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

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