Bermingham City Schools
Opinion Writing
It's no secret that children can be very opinionated, but rather than fight against this natural tendency, embrace it with this primary grade writing project. After a shared reading of a children's book about persuasion, young learners...
EngageNY
Peer Critique: Historical Accuracy of Ideas and Vocabulary
Promote collaboration in the classroom with a historical fiction instructional activity. Fourth graders partner up and read the other's narrative to give feedback on vocabulary choice and the accuracy of historical information. After...
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Who Am I? Creating And Editing Descriptive Writing
With descriptive writing, the pleasure is in the details. Young writers learn how to add sensory details to a paragraph about themselves. They read a short paragraph and identify the sensory details used. After revising their draft...
Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators
Persuasive Essay: Grade 5
Improve your fifth graders' persuasive writing skills in four weeks. Working independently, in peer editing groups, and with instruction, writers work over the 17 sessions to craft an argumentative essay. They craft a well-organized...
K20 LEARN
Writing Is Elementary, My Dear Watson: Writing Paragraphs With Evidence And Reasoning
Did Smitty do it, or is he a victim? Sleuths apply their observation and reasoning skills to build a case for an argumentative paragraph. Class members closely observe a cartoon, make a claim, cite evidence from the image, and support...
EngageNY
Peer Critique: Use of Evidence in the Two-Voice Poem
Peer editors review critique expectations before offering feedback on each other's two-voice poems. They record their feedback on peer critique recording forms, and then begin revising their poems.
McGraw Hill
Writing Prompts, Student Rubrics, and Sample Responses
Whether you are teaching mainstream, advanced, or intervention language arts classes, you will find something helpful in a thorough writing packet. It includes prompts, rubrics, responses, helpful hints, graphic organizers, and many...
EngageNY
Writing an Argumentative Essay: Crafting a Claim
As scholars prepare to craft their essays based on Katherine Paterson's Lyddie, they learn about using compelling reasons in their writing. Next, they develop a claim about whether Lyddie should sign a petition to speak out against...
Turabian Teacher Collaborative
Outline Workshop: Responding to Friendly and Skeptical Questions
Answering questions is the best way to hone and revise your argument. Foster receptive writers with a workshop activity that promotes peer editing and argumentative writing skills. Given lists of both friendly and skeptical questions,...
EngageNY
Writing Dialogue: Revising Historical Narrative Drafts to Add Dialogue
Young writers have written, revised, and peer-edited their historical fiction narratives by the 10th lesson plan in a language arts unit. Fourth graders finally combine their revision notes to create a second draft. The double-spaced...
Education World
Every Day Edit - The Fabulous Frisbee
In this everyday editing activity, 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 - President James Madison
For this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President James Madison. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit: Blueberries
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about blueberries. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every Day Edit - Crater Lake
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Crater Lake. 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 worksheet, 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: White House Easter Egg Roll
In this everyday editing worksheet, young scholars correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the White House Easter egg roll. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: President James Buchanan
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President James Buchanan. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Anne Frank
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Anne Frank. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Harry Potter
In this everyday editing learning exercise, 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: The Seeing Eye
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the first American training school for dogs and their blind owners. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and...
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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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Every-Day Edit: America's Composer
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Aaron Copland. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Curious George
For this everyday editing worksheet, pupils correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Curious George. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.