Princess of Black Poetry: Nikki Giovanni Share the story of Nikki Giovanni with your students, and assign the related activities to help...		Discovering Verbs 11 Give children practice in identifying verbs and their tense.
Promises: Writing a Poem In this activity, students will learn why some events anticipate other events. Then they will...		Initial Self-Assessment: Writing Children become more capable writers by completing an inventory of their writing experiences,...
Gatsby: A Tale of Love and Loss Students imagine that they are like Jay Gatsby, and have a lost love who is destroying them....		Scoring Rubric: Expression The organization, elements of expressive writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a...
The Case of the Missing Crown Activity Connect creative writing and physical science with this printable activity. Students use their...		Scoring Rubric: Comparison/Contrast The organization, elements of comparison/contrast writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and...
Three Useful Literary Terms Hyperbole, apostrophe, ambiguous are explored here.		Scoring Rubric: Evaluation/Review The organization, elements of evaluation/review writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and...
Stars and Stripes -- First Draft Students will write a first draft for the Stars and Stripes Writing Activity.		Portfolio Record This organizational tool will help students keep track of the contents of their writing...
Creating a New World Writing Activity Create a better town or country in these two writing assignments.		The Peanuts Gang: Charles Schulz Share the story of Charles Schulz with your students, and assign the related activities to help...
Can You Identify These Proverbs? Use clues to identify these famous proverbs.		Crazy Cats and Dirty Dogs: Composing a Paragraph with Alliteration Students will demonstrate understanding of the word "alliteration." They will write their own...
Quit horsing around! Idiom Children write about the meaning of this everyday idiom.		The Locked Locker: Writing a Nonfiction Narrative Explore an activity that presents an example of a nonfiction narrative and directions for...
Discovering Nouns 1 This worksheet provides extra practice on identifying nouns.		Write a Time-Travel Dialogue Students use their imagination to write a dialogue between themselves and the men and women of...