Help Christina figure out how many chocolate and lemon candies she has with a lesson on decomposing numbers. When presenting this context to the class, the teacher chooses the total number of candies and the number that are chocolate,...

The strength of this essay outline template is its specificity. By the time your young writers fill in the requested information, they are well on their way to compiling their multi-paragraph essay. Learners craft topic sentences,...

Ease young writers into the process of writing a story with a colorful presentation on story maps. Viewers use the provided sentence frames to craft a sample story as guided practice. They then draft their own stories to share with the...

Begin this activity by asking third graders to bring from home pieces of cloth that represent something important to them. (Have extras for learners who need them.) They reflect on important events in their lives, compose narrative...

Adjectives build better sentences! First, second, third, and fourth graders design adjective booklets that feature words to describe everything between the sea and the sky.

In this sentence writing worksheet, students write telling, asking, expressing, and commanding sentences about the pictures. Students write 20 sentences.

Are your pupils ready to move beyond a thesis statement by adding additional detail to their introductory paragraphs? Provide this handout to give your class some ideas for spiffing up their work. The page includes a sample paragraph...

"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series...

In this sentence worksheet, students write a complete sentence for each of 3 pictures. Lines are provided for the sentences, pictures depict life on a farm.

In this complex sentences worksheet, students read through the various ovals that contain parts of sentences. Students then connect the ovals to create complex sentences.

Young writers compose an opinion piece that details who they feel is worth more than gold.

Engage your English learners with this resource. To begin, learners describe a map to a partner. After a vocabulary exercise and a jumbled letter activity, pupils are asked to write their own letter. The letter reading and writing...

In this energy worksheet, students write a paragraph about the order of energy transformation by putting the chain words into the correct order. Students write 1 paragraph.

In this editing sentences worksheets, students cut out sets of cards that contain punctuation and capitalization mistakes and rewrite the sentences correctly. Students write twenty sentences on four cards.

Students use real life experiences for writing. In this identifying details instructional activity, students use information such as colors, numbers, sizes, shapes and locations to write sentences about the zoo. Students position...

Third graders create sentences. In this sentences lesson students use onomatopoeia words to write sentences. They make a movement to match their onomatopoeia word. The students discuss why an author might use onomatopoeia in their writing.

In this writing worksheet, students write sentences answering questions about things they did yesterday. Students practice writing 10 sentences where they answer questions about the past tense.

For this adjectives worksheet, students circle the adjectives in 5 sentences. Students then brainstorm some adjectives and write them in the box. Students write sentences with these words.

In this word family worksheet, students read 12 words in a word bank that end with the "-ind" pattern. Students write sentences or a story with these words.

In these paragraph writing worksheets, students study the definitions and example sentences for the topic sentence, the body, and the concluding sentence in a paragraph. Students then read a sample paragraph and answer several review...

Students develop a strategy for combining various ideas into well formed sentences which then combine to produce effective descriptive paragraphs.

Third graders analyze word problems. In this number sentence instructional activity, 3rd graders evaluate word problems. Students create number sentences from word problems.

Students demonstrate the parts of speech in sentences. In this grammar lesson, students highlight and identify the parts of speech in sentences.

In this compound sentences worksheet, 3rd graders combine two sentence using the word "and". In this short answer worksheet, students write four sentences.