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Every Day Edit - The Fabulous Frisbee
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the invention of the frisbee. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - Jane Goodall
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Jane Goodall. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every Day Edit - Silly Putty
In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about silly putty. The errors range in capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Harry Potter
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Harry Potter. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: American Red Cross
For this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the American Red Cross. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Unit Plan for Mark Twain and American Humor
Young scholars create brochures about the humor of Mark Twain. In this literature-analysis lesson plan, students read "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and other short stories by Twain. Young scholars write analytical...
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Tales From Around the World
Students read stories. In this culture lesson, students read stories from different regions around the world. Students look for each region on the map and listen for interesting cultural details in the story. Students then discuss the...
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The Bill of Rights
Students explore the Bill of Rights. In this philanthropy and citizenship lesson, students identify and explain how each of the first ten amendments protects the rights of citizens. Students select one amendment to illustrate, and write...
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Story Opening Two
In this proofreading a story beginning and writing the ending of the story worksheet, students read and proofread the beginning paragraphs of a story, study questions about predicting events and the characters, and write the story...
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Carousel Brainstorm Book Report
Students participate in a group review activity to analyze and discuss a book they have all read. They write a paragraph summarizing the findings related to one of the topics. Older students might summarize three topics or all the topics.
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Author's Purpose
Fourth graders read the book Talkin' About Bessie and write a paragraph about the author's purpose. In this author's purpose lesson plan, 4th graders include examples from the story.
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Peer Editing for Expository Essay
You're class just finished writing an expository essay! Instead of having them do a self-edit, pair them up and give each person this guide. This is not your average peer editing checklist; it is a list of 35 things to look for in your...
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Develop a Paragraph
For this paragraph writing worksheet, students review the definition of a paragraph and then read the opening sentences for a paragraph on cooking. Students cut out the sentence strips and arrange the sentences in the order of topic...
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Scrambled Paragraphs
Students examine the structure of paragraphs. In this writing skills lesson, students examine a scrambled paragraph with no formatting or punctuation. Students rearrange the text to create a well-developed paragraph.
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Paragraphs
Young scholars observe paragraphs in newspaper articles and the chapters in their reading books writing down reasons for each new paragraph. They then discuss why writers organize their work into paragraphs.
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Five Paragraph Essay
Eighth graders are introduced to the mechanics of writing a standard-form essay. They draft, edit and polish a five-paragraph essay about spending the day as an animal of their choice.
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Paragraph Parts
For this paragraph part worksheet, students read the paragraphs and then draw an arrow to the start of each paragraph. Students underline a sentence and then find the main idea of the paragraph.
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What's the Big Idea?
Students choose a paragraph from a book of their choice, identify the main idea, and draw an illustration of the main idea. They write original paragraphs, illustrate them, and trade with a partner, identifying the main idea of the...
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Describing How to Get a Shop or Restaurant
In this descriptive paragraph worksheet, students first draw a map showing how to get to a location. Students then write sentences explaining how to get to a location using directional phrases. Students then write the sentences into a...
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Structure of a Paragraph Quiz
In this structure of a paragraph activity, learners read a paragraph entitled "Why I Want to Learn English" and identify the parts of the paragraph, including the topic sentence, the main points, the supporting details, and the conclusion.
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Expository Writing
Fourth graders create Inspirations webs with graphics, and write five paragraph essays.
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One Hundred Dollars-Writing Prompt
In this writing prompt worksheet, students fill mini-organizers to help brainstorm a writing prompt about finding 100 dollars from the tooth fairy. Students are given multiple pages for brainstorming and writing.
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Writing Descriptions
For this writing descriptions worksheet, students write a description of a young boy pictured on the lines provided and then write three more descriptions of students in their class.
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My Likes And Dislikes
Students practice conversational conventions when expressing their likes and dislikes, with a partner. Individually, they write a paragraph explaing a tiem when they felt acceptance or rejection.