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Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

Text Grammar

Learners will read four text massages and rewrite them using proper grammar and correct spelling and punctuation.

Fix the Text Grammar

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

What Does This Text Message Mean?

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Making Sense of Text Message Language

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

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

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

Learn how to identify and remove unnecessary and unrelated details in informational writing!

Finding Irrelevant Details

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

Close Reading: Introduction

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Paraphrasing Practice

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

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

Close Reading Through Word Choice

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Looking at Voice in "Bud, Not Buddy"

Looking at Voice in 'Junie B. Jones'

Help your EL students find and record quotes as evidence in nonfiction texts with the help of introductory phrases and sentence frames. This can support the lesson Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts.

Quotes with Introductory Phrases

Using this lesson plan, your students will synthesize literary information by reimagining storyline outcomes. Substituting characters from their favorite texts and reimagining the effects will excite and bring your class new insights!

Mash-Up Reading Reflections!

Learn which kinds of details to include in a paragraph and which to remove in this worksheet on writing strategies!

Relevant & Irrelevant Details

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

Writing Instructions

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.

Paraphrasing a Passage

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

When students finish reading Jim Murphy&rsquo;s <em>The Great Fire</em>, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Book Study: The Great Fire: What Went Wrong?

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay. 

Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.  

It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

Give your class a deeper understanding of theme with this art and poetry-focused lesson plan about theme. By the end of the lesson, students will understand what theme is and how to determine theme in a piece of writing, such as a poem.

Determining the Theme of a Poem

Improve your child&#39;s reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children&#39;s story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant

Students often understand the basic conventions of writing, but may need support in incorporating these skills into their work. In this lesson, students will review some of the more common capitalization and punctuation errors and apply their editing skills to real writing.

Editing for Capitalization and Punctuation

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

Interesting Introductions

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

Paragraphs That POP!

Quoting is a valuable skill in today's education. Lead your students on the right path with explicit instruction that will stick. Then, back it up with hands on practice on and experience in their own leveled chapter books.

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