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Writing
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Following Instructions

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Get scholars thinking about the scientific process with this fun experiment they can do at home. Learners practice reading directions as they underline each instruction in a procedural paragraph. They create a flow chart and record what...
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Learn the Steps to Clear Essay Writing!

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Introduce your young writers to the five-paragraph expository essay format with a four-page worksheet that uses color codes to model for writers how to craft the essay. Although designed to prepare writers for the GED, the approach can...
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Worksheet
Evan-Moor

Daily Handwriting Practice: Traditional Cursive

For Students 2nd - 4th
Keep your class practicing handwriting each day in a 36-week school year with this comprehensive resource that combines daily cursive practice with content such as poetry, geography facts, continents, and much more.
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Writing
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Punctuating a Paragraph

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Do your fourth graders need a little help with punctuation? Use this run-on paragraph to demonstrate proofreading for capitalization, punctuation, and separating ideas into separate paragraphs. At the end of the activity, learners...
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Spinelli's Maniac Magee (excerpt): Reading and Critical Thinking Practice

For Students 4th - 6th
A brief, dialogue-rich passage from Jerry Spinelli's novel Maniac Magee is accompanied by a well-written literacy assessment tool. Thematic content lends itself to age-appropriate discussions about race relations and social justice....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family Time: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Provide extra support with a unit that follows a teach, blend, guided practice, and practice/apply routine to reinforce reading, grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills. Reading and writing lessons include supporting details, story...
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Worksheet
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Persuasive Writing

For Students 5th - 10th
In this persuasive writing worksheet, students read different scenarios and decide how you would put the scenarios into paragraphs for persuasive writing. Students read 2 scenarios.
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Worksheet
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Research Writing-4th Grade Multiple Choice

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this research writing worksheet, learners solve a total of 25 multiple choice problems related on research writing. An answer key is included.
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Worksheet
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Proofreading Practice

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this proofreading worksheet, students read a paragraph and find the misspelled words. Students rewrite 5 words correctly that they find misspelled in the paragraph.
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Worksheet
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Have You Got...?: Practice With Have Got/Has Got

For Students 4th - 5th
In this possession worksheet, students work with the possession verbs have and has. They fill in blanks in a paragraph, write questions about possessions and correct mistakes in sentences to work on using the correct forms of has and have.
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Worksheet
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Finding Muffin: Writing Practice

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this finish the story activity worksheet, students read a 3 paragraph story entitled "Finding Muffin". Students use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.
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Which Way?: Writing Practice

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this finish the story activity worksheet, students read a 8 paragraph story entitled "Which Way?" and use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.
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Worksheet
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The Zoo: Writing Activity

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this finish the story activity worksheet, students read a 5 paragraph story entitled "The Zoo". Students use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.
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Worksheet
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Staying on Topic: Select a Sentence

For Students 3rd - 5th
After reading sample paragraphs -- each with a topic sentence, conclusion, and 2 supporting details -- readers choose from among 3 possibilities another supporting sentence that fits the topic at hand. Only 2 examples are given, so this...
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Worksheet
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Reduced Time Adverb Clauses

For Students 7th - 10th
Looking for a way to improve your students' writing conventions? Include this adverb clauses worksheet in your next grammar lesson. Middle and high schoolers read a three-paragraph selection and rewrite adverb time clauses to make the...
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Worksheet
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Space Food

For Students 4th
What do astronauts eat in outer space? Kids can read an informational passage to learn about space food. The passage includes prompts that have learners identify the main idea and key details, then write a paragraph summarizing the text....
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Punctuation

For Students 9th - 12th
Should that pause in your sentence be long, short, or somewhere in between? Practice using commas and semicolons with a series of grammar activities. High schoolers read a series of sentences and paragraphs and decide where they should...
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Worksheet
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Three Skeleton Key: Elements of Literature

For Students 6th - 8th
Rats! How are they described in "Three Skeleton Key," and what happens to the characters in the story? Study the vocabulary and the story with these worksheets. Learners complete pre-reading activities, study vocabulary, complete...
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Problem Solving

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
School subjects connect when your young scholars use math to edit English. Math allows you to convert an entire paragraph into a simple equation or inequality. Examples encourage learners to write expressions, equations, and inequalities...
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Worksheet
Sinclair Community College

Sentence Sense Practice Exercise

For Students 6th - 9th
Test your learners' skills in identifying complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons with a worksheet challenge. Every sentence from multiple paragraphs is under question, and pupils have to decide if each sentence is a fragment, run-on,...
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Worksheet
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ARC Writing Lab Worksheets: Parallel Structure

For Students 7th - 9th
In this parallel structure worksheet, learners read about parallel structure within sentences and between sentences, then complete a practice sheet of exercising, rewriting sentences. An answer key is given.
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K12 Reader

Identifying Adverbs IV

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
What a mess! Read about Lilly-Ann's birthday cupcake surprise and work on grammar skills at the same time. Four lengthy paragraphs provide kids with many opportunities to find and circle adverbs. They note the ways that adverbs come in...
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Making Inferences Something Special (13)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Work on making inferences with a reading passage and comprehension questions. After kids read a short paragraph about Jalisa's birthday, they infer why she would be excited about receiving gifts from her brother.
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Adjectives, Prepositions and Gerunds

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this adjective, prepositions, and gerunds worksheet, students write a paragraph with adjective, preposition, and gerund combinations about a pastime or hobby. Students complete 1 paragraph.