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Crazy Critters Creative Writing
Students brainstorm animals with unusual characteristics such as a giraffe with a short neck or a zebra without stripes. They write paragraphs about their animals and work in peer editing groups to refine their stories.
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Third Grade Writing Lesson #1/Descriptive Prompt
Third graders read aloud a book about a favorite place. They make and share a list of favorite places and then use a graphic organizer to write a description of a favorite place so that the reader can imagine being there.
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Grammar and Usage: Section 2
In this online interactive grammar and usage learning exercise, middle schoolers examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
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Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #2
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, middle schoolers examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
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Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #4
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, learners examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision using the rules of standard formal English for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
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Grammar and Usage: Section 2
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, learners examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
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Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #2
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
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Mechanics: Section 1
In this online interactive mechanics review worksheet, students examine 10 sentences or phrases and select the appropriate revision for each sentences with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then submit their...
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Mechanics: Section 2
In this online interactive mechanics review activity, learners examine 10 sentences and select the appropriate revision for each sentences with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then submit their answers to...
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Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #3
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
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Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #4
In this online interactive grammar and usage learning exercise, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
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Mechanics: Section 1, #2
In this online interactive mechanics review worksheet, students examine 10 sentences and select the appropriate revision for each sentences with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then submit their answers to...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Grammar and Usage: Section 1
In this online interactive grammar and usage instructional activity, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Mechanics: Section 1, #4
In this online interactive mechanics review learning exercise, students examine 10 sentences or phrases. They select the appropriate revision for each sentence with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then...
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Mechanics: Section 2
For this online interactive mechanics review worksheet, students examine 10 sentences or phrases. They select the appropriate revision for each sentences with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then submit...
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The Personal Narrative - Part 3
Let's peer edit! Have your writers exchange their personal narratives with another learner! While peer editing, they will look for any missing information and identify strong details. They can practice literary analysis skills using a...
Santa Ana Unified School District
The Power of Point of View
Sometimes a whole story can change based on the perspective of the person telling it. Practice identifying and analyzing point of view in various reading passages and writing assignments with a language arts packet, complete with Common...
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Sense Poetry
Access your young poets' senses and emotions with this activity, which guides them through the process of writing a "sense poem." After working on a sense poem as a class and modeling the procedure, individuals work on their own poems...
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Who's Who at Our School?
Students recognize and use language appropriately for varied contexts and purposes. Students integrate listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing for multiple purposes. Students develop and use a variety of strategies to plan,...
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Lesson Four: Developing a Narrative Writing Piece
Second graders practice writing a narrative piece. In this narrative writing instructional activity, 2nd graders fill out a Rough Draft Organizer then write a narrative composition. Students then conference with the teacher to show their...
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Number Writing Poems
Students read the short poem for each number to help them with number formation. In this numbers lesson plan, students follow directions of the poems.
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Using Adjectives to Write
Fifth graders examine how to write a story using comparative and superlative adjectives. They listen to the book "Pig Pigger Piggest" by Rick Walton and identify the comparative adjectives used in the story. Students then write a rough...
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Creative Writing/Historical Journals
Students write series of journal entries, from the perspective of an immigrant traveling to America via Ellis Island.
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Writing a Historical Fiction Story
What is historical fiction? After explaining the difference to your learners, it's time to give each learner a try! With your support, encourage them to research, plan, and write their own historical fiction story. Don't forget to have a...