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Asking Questions About a Picture 6
Although just a picture, with space for questions, this activity could be a good way to spark a discussion or kick off a writing assignment. Using a picture, learners are asked to write 4 questions. A teacher could then ask students to...
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Intermediate Question Response- "Your Favorite TV Show"
In this question response worksheet, students write a response to; "What is your favorite TV show? Why?" They read an exemplar before writing an original response on the lines at the bottom of the page.
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Concrete Detail and Commentary
In this writing skills worksheet, students practice writing with facts or quotes from a text by following the graphic organizer format. Students write the concrete detail and then list two commentaries for their facts or quotes.
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Literacy through Self-Ethnography
Young scholars examine writing topics. In this writing skills lesson, students incorporate photography into their personal writing and align it with 6 traits skills.
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Determining Main Idea and Supporting Details-Wild in the City
Students discuss the main idea of a story. In this writing process lesson, students use a video about parakeets as a tool to find the main idea of a story. After viewing the video, they engage in a discussion about determining which...
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How to Write a Newspaper Article
Students write a newspaper article. In this journalism lesson, students discover the essential parts of a newspaper article and work in pairs to identify them. Students write a short article of their own, making sure to include all the...
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INTERPRETING A WORK OF ART THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING
Students create a story based upon their interpretation of a work of art. The story displays students' knowledge of writing conventions, elements of a short story, literary conflict and use of descriptive text.
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Writing a Commercial
Students create a product and write a commercial to sell the product. They discuss the differences between ads for television and radio and ads for print. They discuss the persuasion techniques used by ad writers.
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Beginning Question Response--Your Favorite Day
While a simple writing prompt, this activity, in which learners write a short essay about their favorite day of the week, could be a good way to cement skills and provide discussion material. This activity could be used in an elementary...
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Intermediate Question Response- "Your Favorite Movie"
In this intermediate question response worksheet, students write a response telling what their favorite movie is and why. They read an exemplary answer, write a rough draft, and a final draft of their answer.
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Writing Conditional Sentences
In this conditional sentences worksheet, students write a conditional sentence to match the picture. They are provided words to use in the sentences. There are 3 sentences to write.
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Creating Questions
For this writing questions practice worksheet, students examine 5 statements and then write clarification questions to accompany each of them.
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Romulus and Rebus: Writing Exercise
In this writing activity, students answer interview questions using past progressive verb tense as if they were Romulus. Students respond to prepared questions on line and then printout to hand in.
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Video Haiku
Students write Haiku poetry and illustrate their poems with a form of digital or video technology. In this poetry and technology lesson, students study examples of haiku poetry and then write their own poem. Students use digital cameras...
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Changing Your City
Students write a one to two page paper about what they would like to change in their city and why. In this city analysis lesson, students brainstorm about changes for their city and write a paper on why they would make those changes.
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Writing Introductions
In this writing introductions activity, students read about 4 types of introductions, then analyze 6 examples and interactively write comments about each one.
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Who Tells the Story? Defining History
Seventh graders examine historical perspectives. For this historical writing lesson, 7th graders discuss their definitions of history and then discuss perspectives of history. As a culminating activity, students write narrative stories...
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Learning to Use Indefinite Pronouns
In this grammar worksheet, students learn to use indefinite pronouns in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer the 8 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Conjunctions
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about conjunctions in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 12 questions on the page. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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Reflected: Using Reflexive pronouns
For this grammar worksheet, students learn about reflexive pronouns in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 7 questions on the page. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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It's Indirect: Using Indirect Objects
For this grammar worksheet, students learn about using indirect objects in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer the 6 questions on the page. The answers are on the last page in the packet.
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Action or Linking? - Test Your Knowledge of Linking Verbs
In this grammar instructional activity, students learn about using linking verbs in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 12 problems on the instructional activity. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Main Verb or Helping Verb? - Using Have and Has
In this grammar worksheet, students learn the difference between main verbs and helping verbs in sentence writing. The read how to use "have" and "has" correctly. Students then use what they learned to answer the 11 questions on the...
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Omitting If in Conditional Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, learners learn when to omit the word "if" in writing conditional sentences. They then answer 7 questions using what they learned.
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