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5th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

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

Writing Instructions

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

Tips for Writing a Good Beginning Sentence

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

Gratitude Journal

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Time and Sequence Words Practice

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

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 will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

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

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Three Sentence Structures

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

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

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

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

Tracking Transitions

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners&nbsp;will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Seasons Writing Prompt

It's an alien invasion! How will the story end? Young writers and use their imaginations to write their own comic strip.

Write Your Own Comic!

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

Assonance and Consonance

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

What Is an Analogy?

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

Understanding Dialogue: Tom Sawyer

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Complete the Story: Dotty and the Necklace

Present your dad with this do-it-yourself book of Father's Day recipes!

Father's Day Recipes

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

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Have your students practice writing with varied sentence patterns in this story writing challenge.

Mix It Up! Making Varied Sentences

It&#39;s a scene that needs a kid&#39;s finishing touch to be complete. Can your child finish the comic strip?

Finish the Comic Strip

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