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Letter Writing Frame
More a worksheet than a instructional activity, this document provides a nice letter frame template that could be used in tandem with a instructional activity on how to construct a friendly thank you letter. In it, learners are provided...
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Letter Writing Basics
Students write a business letter with information regarding specific writing mechanics. In this writing instructional activity, students learn to write a business letter and they focus on one area of concern. Students follow a business...
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George Says Thanks
In this writing prompt learning exercise, students, after reading Revolutionary War on Wednesday, fill in five blanks to a thank-you note that George Washington may have written to thank a soldier for his war efforts.
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Father Knows Best, Write a Father's Day Letter
Students write a Father's Day letter. In this friendly letter writing lesson, students brainstorm a list of parent responsibilities, then write three specific ways their fathers care for them. Students share learning experiences they...
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National Thank You Month and Letter Writing
Improve writing skills while teaching students the importance of expressing gratitude.
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Writing Informal and Formal Letters
An informal/formal letters worksheet asks pupils to label the 15 greetings, salutations, and wording of passages from sample letters as being examples of either informal or formal writing.
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The Newspaper
In this letter writing worksheet, students write a note to the newspaper to stop the newspaper from coming while they are on vacation.
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Writing with Alliteration
Students read Thank You for the Thistle and understand what alliteration is. In this alliteration instructional activity, students write sentences using alliteration. Students choose a letter of the alphabet and the class writes an...
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Add Awesome Alliteration to Your Writing
Students explore alliteration. In this writing lesson, students read the book Thank You for the Thistle and create sentences with alliteration. Students create an alphabet booklet with alliteration.
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The Mayor Speaks to the Class About City Government
Students investigate politics by speaking to the Mayor of their city. In this local politician lesson, students listen as the Mayor speaks in front of them in their class and ask the Mayor questions about his daily duties. Students write...
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Big Grammar Book
With this comprehensive language arts resource in your arsenal, you'll never have to look for another grammar activity! Whether you're teaching kindergartners how to write the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, or helping...
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Author's Purpose
How do you determine an author’s purpose? You ask the author, of course. Invite a local journalist into the class to respond to scripted student questions about his/her writing process. A review of basic classroom etiquette is also...
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Let's Write Invitations for our Class Celebration
Young scholars examine the parts of a letter and a written invitation. They write letters inviting family members to a classroom celebration.
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Add Awesome Alliteration to your Writing
Students practice writing with alliteration, repeating the same letter sound at the beginning of two or more words in a sentence; students also review of adjectives, verbs, and adverbs while creating an alphabet book.
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Voice
In these writing style worksheets, students practice developing their writer's voice. Students complete three activities that help them with their writing voice.
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Aesop's Fables
Examine the fables of Aesop with your class. Pupils identify the morals of fables and role-play a scene from their favorite fable of Aesop. Additionally, they compose letters to a favorite character in the fable. Learners role-play again...
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Thankful List
Students practice using free association as a pre-writing technique as they list things that they are thankful for. They share the lists of words and apply them when they write a descriptive essay or poem after identifying commonalities...
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English and Literacy: Children's Rights - Expanded Paragraphs
Students write expanded paragraphs about children's rights. In this writing and children's rights lesson, students listen to Caroline Castle's, For Every Child, noting the points about children's rights on each page. They discuss each of...
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Find The Errors
For this grammar practice worksheet, students correct 2 short letters. Each letter has numerous errors that students must find, circle, and correct.
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Free Capitalization Worksheet
Not really a worksheet, but rather, a website that has 10 sentences void of all capital letters. Copy these onto a handout or project them on the wall for your class to use as practice. Answers follow, along with an explanation as to why...
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Lowercase a-z
In this lowercase a-z worksheet, students practice tracing and retracing the twenty six lowercase letters of the alphabet on each of the lines provided.
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Vivid Adjectives
Young scholars review adjectives and play a game where students compete to see who can write the most adjectives for a given noun. They write a story about one topic and try to use a variety of adjectives in sequence tto describe a noun.
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Spelling Takes a Hit!
Students actively practice spelling words. In this spelling lesson, students use a flyswatter to swat at letters that spell each of their spelling words.
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Comparisons
For this conversations worksheet, students complete 8 question and answer conversations by writing the letter of the correct phrase from the word bank.