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Encourage your fourth graders to put their writing skills and imagination to good use by imagining that they are opening up a restaurant and writing about it!

Creative Writing for Kids: Restaurant Owner

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

Teach young writers some commonly used strategies to pace their narrative writing. Students will learn to use formatting, dialogue, and description to speed up or slow down their piece. 

Pacing Strategies

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

Story Mapping Group Work

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

Dear Santa Writing Prompt

Help your ELs use transition words as they make predictions and summarize a short fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Making Predictions and Summarizing

Beginning writers, think scary thoughts for this Halloween writing prompt! Your child will use his imagination to write about what it'd be like to be a ghost.

Halloween Writing Prompts #4

So your students are going to write a narrative? Use these prewriting exercises to help them choose an idea and plan out their story.  

Narrative Prewriting Activities

Students will have a blast creating their own cartoons and comics. This lesson provides an engaging method to help students demonstrate the use of quotation marks when writing.

Who Said It?

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

The Place Value Game

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

Students become word artists as they use ordinary pictures to practice creating detailed descriptions. This technique helps your class learn how to paint a picture with words.

Paint a Word Picture

This lesson focuses on how punctuation affects reading fluency and comprehension using graphic organizers and sentence stems.  Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Punctuation and Prosody lesson plan.

Building Fluency with Punctuation

Writing doesn't have to be a bore! Inspire reluctant writers to use their imaginations for storytelling. Colorful pictures can spark creativity in kids and help them strengthen descriptive writing.

Wacky Writing Prompts

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

Cat Comics: Ballgame Antics

Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

Character Detectives

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

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

This lesson will have your EL students exploring characters&#39; dialogue and actions to determine their personality traits! Use it on its own or as a support lesson.

Discovering Character Traits

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Using Dialogue to Pace Your Piece

Give your class the "write" tools they need to become excellent authors. In this literary lesson, students use their knowledge of author's purpose to successfully write pieces that persuade, inform, and entertain.

Author's Purpose: Easy as PIE

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to critically think about data. Use this lesson alongside Line Plots: Representing the Length of Classroom Items or as a stand alone lesson.

Understanding Line Plots

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

Christmas Gift Writing Prompt

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

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Featured Character Postcard

Create conversations about character changes! Use this lesson plan as a stand-alone lesson for practicing sequencing words in evidenced-based claims about a character, or before the Characters Change Just Like We Do lesson.

Evidence of Character Changes

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

Expose your students to the wonderful genre of drama, but be sure to teach them the important key terms so they understand the structure. Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for the *Putting a Play Together!* lesson.

Parts of a Drama

Figurative language can be difficult, especially for ELs. With the help of context clues and exposure to common idioms, it can be a piece of cake! Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the *Take a Walk with Idioms* lesson.

Working with Idioms

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.

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