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5th Grade Writing Strategies Educational Resources : Page 2

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

Kids can fly by character analysis, comparative reading and writing, that revolves around a fun chapter of a classic book. Follow the Darlings toward Neverland on the way to improved reading skills.

Peter Pan and Neverland

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

Tracking Transitions

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Paraphrase the Declaration of Independence

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Glossary: Order of Operations Sequencing

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.

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

Writing Metaphors

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

Gratitude Journal

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Glossary: Explain Fraction Conversions

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

What Is an Analogy?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

Glossary: Writing About Math Expressions

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Create a Comic Strip

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

Have a monstrous amount of fun with this series of ghoulish writing activities. Get acquainted with famous monsters like Frankenstein, and write a few frightful stories of your own.

Monster Writing

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Paraphrasing: Rosa Parks

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

Create Your Own Comic

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

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Make a Travel Journal

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

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

Vocabulary Cards: Order of Operations Sequencing

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

In this game, kids will interact with a story by moving the plot forward with carefully selected words.

Transition Bugs: Star Rumble

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

Understanding Dialogue: Tom Sawyer

A Recipe for Transition Use

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

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #2

Get to know the true story of the midnight ride and the start of the American Revolution with this historical graphic novel.

Paul Revere: The Graphic Novel

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

Find the Sentence Patterns

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