Less than $5 Adult Education Writing Resources (by date, oldest first)

Make students a Writing Journal to do independent writing during a mini lesson or add to your Writing station.This is great practice for skills that are needed on standardized testing. The Writing Prompt Journal will help keep students' writing skills crisp all year long. Writing Journal Includes: 6 Writing Plans (Graphic Organizers) 6 Writing Prompts 6 Writing Draft Sheets Writing Checklist (Copy for each draft) Transition Word Bank (Graphic Organizer) Transition Word List 6 Different Writing Genres included: Informative, Creative, Personal Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive, and Fictional Writing. Students will enjoy sharing their writing with one another and teachers have a quick daily formative writing assessment. Please comment and rate. Thank You! If you like this item please check out my Figurative Language Bundle

Looking for a fun Father's Day handwriting activity? These sentence-building worksheets include writing paper with picture boxes and will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently. Further, students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color Father's Day-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

This resource includes:

   ✏ 10 Father’s Day themed sentence-building worksheets

   ✏ 3 diverse pointer-finger hands

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute with scissors and glue

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Sentence Building Writing Worksheets | Finger Spacing Tool | Full-Year BUNDLE

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Looking for some fun seasonally-themed handwriting activities for the summer? This bundle includes 20 holiday-themed worksheets for summer and Father's Day. These sentence practice worksheets will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently while connecting the image with the sentence's meaning.

Students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color the seasonally-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

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✏️ NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

✏️ This resource includes:

   ✏ 20 seasonally-themed sentence-building worksheets

   ✏ 3 diverse skin-toned pointer-finger hands

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute with scissors and glue

✏️ Seasons and Holidays included:

   ✏ Father’s Day

   ✏ Summer

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Celebrate Mom with Fun & Creative Activities: 5 Mother's Day Worksheets!

This packet is bursting with engaging worksheets that will help kids show their moms some extra love on Mother's Day! Explore mom's amazing qualities, create a special timeline of her life, connect through shared interests, and even plan a delicious treat or fun activity together.

These worksheets are perfect for grades 6-8 and can be completed independently or as a classroom activity.

Worksheet 1: Mom's Masterpieces

Objective: Students celebrate their mom's talents and contributions.

Worksheet 2: My Mom, the Multitasker

Objective**:** Students appreciate the many roles their mom plays.

Worksheet 3: Through the Decades

Objective: Students explore their mom's life experiences and connect with her history.

Worksheet 4: Mom's Movie Moments

Objective: Students connect with their mom through shared interests and create a fun memory.

Worksheet 5: A Recipe for Mom

Objective: Students plan a special meal or activity for their mom.

An interactive introduction to writing beginnings/endings and conclusions/introductions. The presentation uses a peer workshopping approach to writing beginnings and endings. Includes: Techniques to "hook" readers: Action Description Dialog Emotion Quotation Setting Examples of each Techniques to write successful conclusions. Ambiguous Circular Humor Moral Quote Restate thesis: Examples of all techniques Word Search that includes all terminologies (project and solve as a group or use as individual handouts) Uses peer workshopping and group read-arounds to complete the activites. Easy for students to follow and easy to implement in the classroom.

Become a news reporter and write your own daily column with these 22 inferencing, journalism writing activities. Newspaper format and great graphics are easy for students to work with. Uses writing process and peer workshopping strategies. Comes with two blank templates for creative fun and one lined page for extra writing space. Includes optional media and technology projects for differentiated classrooms. Excellent for use with relationship words, time order, fact vs. opinion, and more...Meets CCSS.

14 non-fiction and 1 fiction scenarios with speech and thought bubbles for students to make inferences, practice point of view, and practice writing dialogue. Non-Fiction Scenes Include: Skiers Musicians Basketball Player Hiking Art Babysitting Mechanics Friends Salesman Accident Garden Skateboarding Science Parking Lot and Aliens (fiction) Can be used individually or with whole groups for journal writing, writing text evidence based on visual clues, on-demand writing prompts, writing reader's theater/plays, practice grammar skills, spelling, vocabulary, and more.

Have fun teaching Hyperboles with this twelve pdfs that defines, illustrates, and explains the concept. Includes: Individual/whole group activities (students illustrate or make videos) Definition Examples Media links with fun Youtubes Images for use with inferencing skills and more... Easy to follow and understand. Engaging and fun way to learn and use hyperboles.

The 20 slide PowerPoint with peer workshopping activities introduces: Sentences: beginnings, dialogues Proper Nouns: people, I, my Specific Places and Dates: General vs. Specific, Days of Week/Month, Holidays Everyday Life: Organizations, Companies, Institutions, Specific Products, Aircrafts, Ships, Spaceships, Ethnic Names, Languages, Nationalizations, Religions Extra Resources Examples are given so students can follow authors' imitations. Easy explanations of color-coded rules and guidelines for using capital letters sentences and essays. Peer workshopping activities help reinforce capital letter rules.

10 days of writing prompts to address goal setting, time/anger/stress management,interpersonal skills. Wonderful visuals will stimulate response from students. Excellent for group discussions and journal sharing.

An easy-to-follow guide to using and writing effective titles: what to capitalize, what to italicize, plus includes examples of effective titles, and discussion slides of famous novels and their alternate titles: 1984 Gone With the Wind The Great Gatsby Treasure Island Vanity Fair Also, includes an activity slide for writing titles with articles, pictures, and essays. There are 12 slides.

A great way to get students journaling is to combine visuals with words to stimulate the mind. The eleven-slide PowerPoint addresses study skills, time management, stress management, interpersonal relationships and goal setting. Great for group discussions and story starters, as well.

Do your students have trouble determining when to use "I" or "Me"? This easy-to-follow PowerPoint includes: Simplified Rules for Using"I" and "Me" Easy to follow Examples Peer Workshopping Activity This to-the-point presentation is for individual, small, or whole group introduction and review.. Make learning to use "I' or "Me" easy!

Fun and interactive activity for students to relate real life writing to the use of comma rules. Have plenty of magazines, brochures, or newspapers on hand for students/small groups to cut out comma examples and paste them under the correct comma rule headings. Group or individual activity is enjoyable to students, who will discuss rules as they work! (Reminder: review the 3 Kinds of Writing PowerPoint and Using Commas in Writing to help students understand the different guidelines for academic, creative, and journalism writing, along with comma rules).

Defines the term "paragraph" plus how to build paragraphs along with different types of paragraphs and relationship words for each. Included are: General, Analysis, Chronology, Least to most important, Most to least important, Logical, Subordinating, Coordinating. Easy to follow with examples of styles given.

Ten four-leaf clovers with St. Patrick's Day vocabulary for individual, small or whole group creative writings. Hand one to each student/group and have students use the vocabulary to build creative writings or timed assessment writings. Great for incorporating St. Patrick's Day terminology into lesson plans.

What's it take to be a peer workshopper? This quick introduction to peer workshopping will help students understand the process and includes a Peer Workshopping Checklist, as well as an example, to get students started! Use with college prep, homeschool, flipped classrooms, upper level learners, higher ed, and teacher training/professional development programs to introduce what peer workshopping is and how to get started. Excellent prep for writing tests. Follows Common Core and State Assessment Writing guidelines.

Overview of standard English composition essay guidelines for upper level writers. Basic, straightforward, and easy to follow. Includes examples of cover sheet, no cover sheet essay, and text model.

New standardized tests, such as ACT and SAT, ask students to define the problem, sort through solutions, find the best solution, and explain why they chose their answers. This free graphic organizer will help students with working through the process!

35 Fourth of July fun and engaging activities for elementary students! Includes: Writings:"What Freedom Means to Me" and "My Favorite Fourth of July Memory" and more... "My Patriotic Poem" Coloring Handouts: July Fourth messages with themed images Crossword puzzle with answers Word search with answers Uncle Sam's Dialogue activity Fourth of July Find It Games Vocabulary Word Games Craft activities for July 4 messages Fun, educational activities for celebrating July 4th!