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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.

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Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

In this nonfiction writing exercise, students will consider whether they are superstitious, what superstitions they might hold, and how they feel about superstitions in general.

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Writing Prompt: Superstitions

Read up on the various number superstitions around the world and why certain numbers are so lucky or unlucky for certain cultures!

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Number Superstitions

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

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Informational Writing: Linking Ideas

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

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Frame Your Essay

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

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Household Chores: Opinion Writing Exercise

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

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Informative Essay: Idea Map

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

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Write Your Essay

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

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Blog Template: Listicles

Get kids thinking about their opinions!  This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece.  This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

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Organizing My Opinion

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

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Informative Essay: Anchor Paper

Is spilling salt really bad luck? Read about the origins of this food superstition; it may not be as odd as you think!

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Spilling Salt

Did you ever get bad luck from seeing a black cat cross your path? Maybe the superstition is not as scary as you thought!

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Black Cats

Beware of walking under ladders! Find out the origins of this superstition and why people avoid walking under ladders.

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Walking Under a Ladder

Do you avoid stepping on cracks in the road? Have some fun exploring a common childhood superstition!

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Don't Step on a Crack!

Have you ever opened an umbrella indoors? Some people think that action causes bad luck! Read all about how this superstition came to be.

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Opening an Umbrella Indoors

Seen Sasquatch? Here's a list of ten ways to know, but just like Sasquatch, some of the items are missing. Fill in the rest using your awesome creativity!

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Sasquatch Sightings!

Have you ever knocked on wood to counter-jinx yourself? Now it's time to find out the truth behind this well-known superstition!

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"Knock On Wood"

If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

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Broken Mirror

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

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A Malala-Inspired Activity: Listicle Blog Posts

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

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Persuasive Writing Prompt Cards

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

literary essay graphic organizer

Literary Essay Graphic Organizer

This Easter writing prompt will get your child to think about Easter traditions and then order his thoughts by practicing structured composition.

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Easter Creative Writing #4

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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Biography of Wangari Maathai

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

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Map Your Essay: Graphic Organizer

In this writing exercise, children write a descriptive paragraph or two about the colors that surround them in autumn.

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Thanksgiving Writing Prompt #7

Nobody knows much about the Secretive Celestial. It's up to your young author to decide who this superhero is. Let the imagination run wild.

the secretive celestial

The Secretive Celestial

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

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A Misty Copeland Biography

Engage your creative side with this musical companion activity to a unit on Louis Sachar&rsquo;s <em>Holes</em>!

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Novel Study: Holes: Camp Song

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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