This proofreading capitalization and punctuation activity gives 2nd to 5th grade students 16 self-checking detective cards for fixing sentences. A practice page and answer key are included.
Let's Publish My Writing Activity helps 2nd to 4th Grade writers pick a prompt card, plan, and type one full page on the computer, then check their work with a publishing checklist.
This writing tweets activity has kids read a bird feeder how-to text and answer fun prompt cards. Made for 3rd to 5th grade, with an answer key included for the practice page.
This take note writing activity has 3rd to 5th grade students sort print and digital sources, research a state with question cards, and take notes in their own words. Answer key included.
Students hunt for U.S. government facts with this digital dilemma research activity for 3rd to 5th grade, checking each answer in a website and a book. An answer key is included.
Using this Help From Other Author's Activity helps, students collect story elements from literary or informational texts to write their own story.
UsingEarth Day Writing Activity, students brainstorm the sequence of events of a growing seed, then publish using them Earth Day themed writing.
This write all about it newspaper writing activity turns 3rd to 5th grade students into reporters with topic cards, a planner, and a front page template. Answer key included.
This write about a time when. . . activity gives 2nd to 5th grade writers 16 star topic cards, a story planner and a writing page for true stories. Answer key included.
Using this Wants Needs Reading Response Worksheet, students readAlexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday to build their understanding of wants and needs.
Use this explain it all informative explanatory writing activity to help 3rd to 5th grade students plan and write clear fact-based pieces. Answer key included for easy checking.
Using Publish It Writing on the the Computer Activity, students use technology to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Use this get ready to write activity with 3rd to 5th grade writers. Kids pick a topic card, plan with a simple planner, and write; an answer key is included.
Using Color Me Curious Research Writing Activity, students participate in shared research and writing projects to learn about any topic.
This Now Presenting - Report on a Topic Activity is a fun way for students to learn about Summarizing and presentations!
Using this Look in the Text Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
The Tell Us About it Expository Writing Activity helps 3rd to 5th Grade students plan an expository text and publish it as a newspaper article. Answer key included.
Using this Get to the Point PowerPoint Activity, students learn to include multimedia components such as graphics, sounds, and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
Using this Three Amigos Poetry Drama Prose Activity, students sort the word cards by genre (prose, poetry, and drama). Use the sorted cards to label and fill out a Venn Diagram.
Using Enhancing My Presentation Activity, students add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations to enhance the development of main ideas.
Paragraphs with purpose
Fourth graders write longer pieces with clear organization. They write opinion pieces that give reasons and evidence, informational essays that explain a topic with facts and examples, and narratives with dialogue and description. They learn to write a strong topic sentence, group details into paragraphs, and add linking words like for example, also, in addition, because. Research becomes a real skill too: kids take notes from a few sources and put information in their own words. The goal is writing that is organized, detailed and fun to read.
Fourth graders write better when they plan first. These moves make planning a habit.
Before every essay, kids fill in an organizer with a main idea and three supporting details. It takes ten minutes and saves a lot of messy rewriting. Once the plan is clear, each box becomes a paragraph.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withExpository Writing Graphic Organizer WorksheetGraphic OrganizersOpen it →Show a paragraph without its first sentence and ask kids what it is mostly about. Write a topic sentence together, then compare a few options. Kids learn that the topic sentence tells readers what to expect.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withWriting Topic Sentences WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Teach kids to read a short passage, close the book and jot three facts from memory. Then they check the text for accuracy. This simple routine stops copying and builds real note-taking skills.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withResearch Notes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Writing gets a lot more fun with choice and a little creativity.
WorksheetsWrite a poem in the shape of what it describes, like a tree or a rocket.
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WorksheetsAdd prefixes and suffixes to words to make silly sentences, then read them aloud.
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WorksheetsBrainstorm characters, a setting and a problem, then trade with a partner to write the story.
Open Narrative Writing Brainstorming Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Proofreading Capitalization and Punctuation Activity, Let's Publish My Writing Activity and Writing Tweets Activity.
Opinion writing, informational or expository writing, and narrative writing. They also write short research reports, summaries and poetry.
Most 4th grade essays are about three to five paragraphs, with an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion.
Encourage them to plan before writing, read their work out loud to catch mistakes, and write for fun, like letters, stories or lists.
Expository writing explains or informs. It uses facts, examples and clear organization, like a report on the solar system.
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