Going for the Gold Students write an opinion essay on whether athletic excellence is something you are born with...		Write a Harry Potter Script Students learn to summarize one chapter from a Harry Potter book and write a one scene script...
Fall into Rhyme Students write a Fall poem and explore rhyming patterns.		Questions and Answers with J.K. Rowling A question and answer session with J.K. Rowling.
I Can Print My Name This chart records a student's manuscript printing progress through the year.		Harry Potter Resources and Activities Take advantage of the fact that kids love to read about Harry Potter and his marvelous...
Personification Personification as a writing technique is explored.		Who Are My Representatives? Students learn who their state and U.S. representatives are, discuss major political issues,...
Creating Mental Pictures with Metaphors Using metaphor as a tool is the focus of this printable activity.		Homophones Quiz Students are asked to complete a sentence by picking the appropriate homophone from a list.
Character Traits Use this lengthy list of character traits to help students understand and discuss literary...		Four Sentence Types Quiz Students have to identify statements, commands, exclamations, and questions.
Three Useful Literary Terms Hyperbole, apostrophe, ambiguous are explored here.		Irregular Plurals Quiz Knife, wolf, and volcano are a few of the 20 words tested here.
Harry Potter Haiku Handout This worksheet defines and gives examples of haiku poems, and helps students to write their...		Quiz on the "ie" and "ei" Rule "I" before "E", except after "C", or when sounding like "A" as in neighbor and weigh.
Harry Potter Haiku Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.		Sentence Types Quiz Students have to indicate whether a sentence is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or...
Script Writing Handout Use this worksheet to teach students how to write a script to perform in class. This activity...		Short Stories Quiz Give your students a quiz on components of stories (character, plot, etc.).