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Kindergarten - 4th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Resources : Page 3

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Volcano Writing Scene

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

What Is an Analogy?

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Mix Up Your Sentences! With Conjunctions and Adverb Phrases

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

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Finish the Story: The Forest

Use this fun bee themed worksheet to help your students write sensory list poems all about bees!

Bee Poems

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Creative Writing: Living Underwater

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

Formative Assessment: Speaking and Listening

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

Use this fun worksheet to create a five senses riddle to stump your friends! Students will get practice using sensory words to describe objects with the help of a word bank.

Five Senses Observation

A lot can happen in a day! Transition words can help us organize our thoughts into a sequential story. Use this activity to teach students the importance of transition words as they tell about their day...all with the help of sentence frames!

Tell About the Transitions

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Personification

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 2

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

Descriptive Writing Check-in

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

The Ugly Duckling's New Friend

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

Glossary: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Time Order Transitions

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Vocabulary Cards: Explain Fraction Conversions

Put a little imagination into writing practice! Kids will imagine up a new animal species and write a descriptive paragraph about it.

Invent an Animal

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Five Senses Mystery Bags.

Glossary: Five Senses Mystery Bags

Record the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of winter! This winter writing prompt challenges your child to practice sensory description.

Winter Descriptive Writing

Kids help complete a fun story about another galaxy by filling in the correct transition words.

Transition Words Star Rumble

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

Teach your fourth grader how to properly punctuate dialogue with these exercises that focus on quotation marks as incorporated in various sentence formats. 

Punctuation in Dialogue 2

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

Sci Fi Writing Prompt: End of the World

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

Practice Using Transitions #2

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

Using Quotes in Writing

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