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Beginning With Writing; Convey Ideas in Writing

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Walk young writers through the process of creating an initial writing sample for their portfolio. They determine their purpose, organize their ideas, and then create a draft. The lesson includes worksheets and online resources to aid in...
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Sentence Structure: Avoiding Choppy, Run-on, and Stringy Sentences

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Use this as a reference sheet for peer- or self-editing, or as a guide when teaching sentence structure. Defines and gives examples of choppy, run-on, and stringy sentences, and provides corrected versions of each. Check revised examples...
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Fable Writing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students listen to and discuss various fables, and identify the moral and central themes. They write their own personal fables and create illustrations to go with them.
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Literacy Revision

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts worksheet, students participate in a variety of grammar activities. For example, students write the plural form of six words and find the prefixes and suffixes of six words.
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Improving Editing and Proofreading Skills

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore language arts by correcting grammatical errors. In this proofreading lesson, students identify the importance of editing their own writing and demonstrate their proofreading abilities by correcting several incorrect...
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15 Common Grammar Mistakes in Written and Oral Work

For Students 5th - 12th
In this grammar worksheet, students will read 5 of the 15 most common grammatical mistakes in oral and written language. There are 2 examples of each mistake and 2 examples of how to correct the mistake.
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Worksheet: Azar: Understanding and Using English Grammar, Chart 17-4

For Students 4th - 6th
For this grammar practice worksheet, students examine lists of differences between identical and fraternal twins. Then students write sentences comparing the twins.
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Past Time with Time Clauses

For Students 5th - 8th
In this past time with time clauses worksheet, students write 5 original sentences using the time clauses listed. Students should be sure there are commas placed where they are needed.
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6 Traits: Word Choice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore language arts by participating in a vocabulary usage activity. In this word choice lesson, students read examples of great word usage in literature and discuss with the class why some words appear stronger than others....
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Why Thank You!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to a read aloud of Patricia Polacco's, Thank You, Mr. Falker! students examine the use of voice in the book, discuss the writing and theme ideas. They write a thank you not to their hero.
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Studying Anchor Papers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars examine the Florida Writes! Rubric and discuss the basic elements of the scoring system. In small groups, they use the rubric to discuss and score several student essays.
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Crazy Critters Creative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils brainstorm animals with unusual characteristics such as a giraffe with a short neck or a zebra without stripes. They write paragraphs about their animals and work in peer editing groups to refine their stories.
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Alien Pen Pals

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students write a friendly letter to an Alien Pen Pal including details about the planet Earth.
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Triumphant Spirit

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students watch a video which allows them to listen to a woman tell her tale as a young girl in Germany. Upon viewing this video and completing the reading assignment, students write about a person with a triumphant spirit.
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Who am I?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students develop their writing skills by creating a character sketch about themselves. Students read character sketches, view portraits by famous artists, select one personality traits, and affix a mug shot of themselves into a famous...
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What's the Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a narrative story from an image taken by a classmate. Each student takes and downloads a digital picture containing some sort of interesting action. They print and exchange photographs without discussing the photos....
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Writing is Hard Work

For Students 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students read a quote by Isaac Singer which says, "The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." Students explain what this means to them and how they view the writing process.
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Worksheet
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Letter from San Diego - Proofreading for Missing Commas and Capital Letters

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students read a letter that is missing commas and capital letters. They write in the missing commas, and circle all of the letters that should be capitalized. They see graphics on the page that illustrate...
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Organizer
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Topic: English - 'Making Connections' - Coordinating Conjunctions

For Students 4th - 6th
In this sentence writing worksheet, students learn about using conjunctions in sentences. They then use what they learned to answer the 6 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page.
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A Sample Mini-lesson for Teaching Writing Conventions

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars study writing conventions. In this writing conventions lesson plan, students study writing they have already completed and look for conventions they are already using without realizing. In a small group, young scholars...
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Learning About Hurricanes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write a research paper on hurricanes. In this weather lesson, students use a science text book to write down facts about hurricanes on note cards and then outline their essay. Students use the outline to create an organized essay.
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Capitalization Exercise

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this capitalization practice worksheet, students read 8 sentences and identify all of the letters in each sentence that should be capitalized. Students also note letters that should be lowercase.
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Show! Don't Tell!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars write a descriptive paragraph. For this writing lesson, students define elaboration and discuss the characteristics of an elaborate paragraph. Young scholars write a paragraph that contains vivid adjectives, strong verbs...
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Reading and Correcting Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this proofreading worksheet, students read a paragraph about the great builders of ancient civilizations. Students answer 10 multiple choice grammar and vocabulary questions about the text.

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