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Writing activities and ideas for the upper elementary classroom: tips, tricks, and inspiration

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Third Grade Language Arts Activities

Main Idea Activities

Summarizing Nonfiction

Informational Text Structures

Main Idea And Supporting Details

Supporting Details

Nonfiction Text Features

Language Art Activities

Authors Purpose

Practice MAIN IDEA every month of the school year!

Teach 2nd and 3rd grade students to identify the main idea and supporting details within a reading passage. Identifying the main idea is a difficult skill for students to master, so it is helpful to practice identifying the main idea often. Each worksheet focuses on a particular month or season. This resource provides you with a main idea activity when each new month arrives. Spiral back to main idea 11 times during the school year! With multiple-choice questions, this is ideal for test prep!

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Simple Compound Complex Sentences

Simple Compound And Complex Sentences

Compound And Complex Sentences

Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences PowerPoint

Teach students about simple, compound, and complex sentence with this PowerPoint. Students will have many opportunities to identify and write each type of sentence. Students will also learn the comma rules associated with compound and complex sentences. It includes a printable and digital companion handout.

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Upper Elementary Classroom

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Summarize Nonfiction Worksheets: 5 Passages with a Graphic Organizer

Reading Comprehension Activities

Context Clues

Dictionary and Thesaurus Practice Worksheets

Students must be taught how to properly use reference materials. Use this set of three worksheets to teach your students how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses. Students will learn how to interact with guide words, definitions, and pronunciation guides in dictionaries and glossaries. For the thesaurus worksheet, students will learn the importance of analyzing the entire sentence rather than simply choosing a word from the listing. Ideal for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.

Topic Sentences and Conclusion Sentences

Teach elementary students to write strong topic sentences and matching conclusion sentences with this expository writing PowerPoint bundle. It features a topic sentences PowerPoint, a conclusion sentences PowerPoint, a worksheet packet for independent practice, and four days of lesson plans.

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Race Writing Strategy

RACE Strategy PowerPoint for Writing Responses with Text Evidence Support

Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce the RACE writing strategy to your students in a way that will grab their attention? Use this student-friendly PowerPoint to teach your students how to write a short response to a passage-based question. After reading a passage, students can use the RACE strategy to construct a formal response to the question that follows the passage. Four practice passages are included. Great for guided practice!

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Subordinating Conjunctions

Coordinating Conjunctions

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Conjunctions PowerPoint Lesson with Practice Combining Sentences: Coordinating and Subordinating

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Morning Work Classroom

Sentence Task Cards: Complete, Run-on, or Fragment

Are you finding too many fragments and run-on sentences in your students' writing? Help your students by teaching them what a fragment, run-on, and complete sentence looks like. This set of 32 task cards is particularly engaging because it comes with a gamelike recording sheet. A traditional recording sheet is also included.

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Fragments And Run On Sentences

Powerpoint Pictures

Practice Reading

Identify & Revise Sentence Fragments and Run On Sentences - Sentence Structure PowerPoint

Are you searching for a PowerPoint that can be used to introduce fragments and run-on sentences to your students? This 57-slide PowerPoint lesson will help you teach your students to recognize and revise sentence fragments and run-on sentences. First, students will be reminded of the components of a complete sentence. The second and third section focuses on fragments and then run-ons. In the final review section, students practice reading and revising sentences. Matching printables are included!

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Degrees Of Adjectives

Comparative And Superlative Adjectives

Comparatives And Superlatives

Comparative And Superlative

Adverbs Worksheet

Writing Complete Sentences

Binder Ideas

Base Words

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs Worksheets

Six worksheets for practicing the use of the comparative or superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs. Students learn and practice the spelling rules related to forming comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. Rules about adding -er and -est to adjectives and adverbs are featured, and students learn when to use "more" and "most". Students practice using irregular comparatives and superlatives. Students to write complete sentences on 2 worksheets. Ideal for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade!

Capitalization Rules Worksheets: Edit Sentences for Capital Letters

Do your students struggle with remembering the rules related to capitalization? This packet includes 5 worksheets and 1 assessment that focuses on the most common capitalization rules. Students practice rules related to book titles, proper nouns, relationships, regions, job titles, religions, nationalities, languages, and more! Students edit sentences by drawing three lines under letters that should be capitalized. Ideal for fourth and fifth-grade students!

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Dialogue PowerPoint Lesson and Two Practice Worksheets: Write Dialogue with Quotation Marks

Do your students misuse quotation marks when trying to add dialogue to their stories? Check out this highly interactive 71-slide Writing Dialogue PowerPoint! This resource includes not only the PowerPoint and matching handout, but also two practice worksheets! The worksheets are perfect for independent practice, as students have an opportunity to practice implementing the rules that they learned as they worked through the PowerPoint. Students will learn about tags and punctuation rules.

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Somebody Wanted But So Then

Summarizing Fiction

Teaching Students

Comprehension Activities

Summarize Fiction Worksheets: 6 Passages with a Poster

Teaching students to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" strategy to write a summary requires many practice opportunities! This packet of worksheets features SIX fiction passages. After reading each story, students write a short summary. These passages are perfect for teachers who want to do a scaffolded approach like "I Do, We Do, You Do".

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Editing Worksheets

Editing Symbols

Writing Worksheets

Revising Fragments and Run-on Sentences: Five Editing Worksheets

This writing worksheet packet includes five worksheets that will give your students an opportunity to practice recognizing and revising sentence fragments and run-on sentences. Each proofreading worksheet includes a chart with common editing symbols so that students learn to use the appropriate symbols as they revise each writing sample. This is ideal for students in third, fourth, and fifth grade!

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Compound Sentences

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences PowerPoint Lesson

Teach students about simple, compound, and complex sentences with this PowerPoint. Students will have many opportunities to identify and write each type of sentence. Students will also learn the comma rules associated with compound and complex sentences. It includes a printable and digital companion handout.