Common Core Writing Strategies Worksheets

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt! 

In this middle school grammar worksheet, learners will read short narrative passages and choose the transitions that best connect the ideas and sentences.

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships between ideas.

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

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

In this sixth-grade worksheet, students hone their narrative writing skills by practicing identifying and removing irrelevant details to strengthen a story.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

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

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Improve students' argument writing skills by identifying and removing irrelevant details with this middle school writing worksheet!

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.

Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Increase your student's ability to spot incorrect grammar with this Sentence Fixer worksheet. Students will practice their capitalization, punctuation, and dialogue skills to fix up this set of sentences.

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

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

Punctuation Pig offers a lesson in punctuating dialogue in this playful grammar worksheet.