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Expository Writing Song

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Ewww, expository writing! Right? Narrative is fun, because you get to tell a story. You can relate lots of personal experiences and retell an event. That’s pretty basic as far as writing goes. Expository, though, that bothers many kids. Maybe this song can give them some pointers?

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Expository Writing Song

Theme Border Writing Paper

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Want to add a little pizazz to your students’ final drafts? Want to make them earn the right to put their 2nd or 3rd drafts on nice paper, but don’t want to pay for it? Have Fun Teaching has some themed writing paper. Have them start on lined paper with their planning and pre-writing, then do drafts, peer corrections, and end with a pen-written finished product on one of these nice free border papers!

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Theme Border Writing Paper

Journal Prompts

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Do you keep a writing journal? I can imagine those speckled black and white composition books filling up with writing, improving day by day. Help them fill them up with some pre-made writing prompts, available at have fun teaching. They have dozens, perhaps hundreds of ideas. Find the ones you like or go through sequentially.

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Journal Prompts

Daily Writing Prompts

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We’ve got some more writing prompts, great for those 15 minute journal entries students can do to keep an ongoing running record of their progress, something they can look back on to see how far they’ve come. But before you run out of ideas and prompts, stop by have fun teaching and see how many free ones they have for you!

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Daily Writing Prompts

Writing Prompts

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Need to practice for those end of year writing tests, but you’re fresh out of ideas to write about? No worries, we’ve got some free, ready-to-use prompts all made and done pretty to add interest. These are way better than a simple sentence you made up on the fly and scribbled on the whiteboard. Don’t overthink it, because they’re free!

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Writing Prompts

Sentence Worksheets

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Writing essays doesn’t come overnight. It starts with writing sentences, then adding transition words and those 2-dollar vocab words. Have Fun Teaching has made a few exercises that help with the sentences part. Take this one for example, where students write 1-2 sentences about each season. This could very easily be transformed into an essay later, talking about the pros and cons of each season and ending with a nice conclusion about the writer’s favorite season. Why not give it a try?

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Sentence Worksheets

Narrative Writing Worksheets

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Narrative writing can be fun for children. It can help them find their writer’s voices, and they tend to enjoy it more than expository writing. Give them some practice with some free printable writing exercises from have fun teaching. This particular one has several story card that they draw and use at random to make a fun story.

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Narrative Writing Worksheets

Verb Worksheets

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Verbs are action words, and students need to know how to match them up with a subject to make proper sentences. They also need to know a variety of them, so every sentence isn’t about eating, sleeping, talking, or running. Get them practicing with a quick worksheet from have fun teaching. Then have them brainstorm more verbs they know with their partners. You could even start a verb wall in your classroom!

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Verb Worksheets

Capitalization Worksheets

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Proper grammar is essential for being understood and for being an effective communicator. Capitalization is a skill that needs to be learned early. Whether it’s the first word of a sentence, proper nouns, or the days of the week, knowing when to capitalize and when not to makes a big difference. Have fun teaching has several worksheets that go over the basics, including some non-examples that need to be corrected.

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Capitalization Worksheets

Analogies Worksheets

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Analogies are one of the best ways to teach comparisons. Take a look at this worksheet, which gives students the chance to fill in the blank with some basic analogies. Certainly, this could lead into some extension activities, like students writing their own analogies, or having shoulder partners finish each other’s analogies. Give this one a try, and there’s even another worksheet with 50 more if you want to go more in depth!

 

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analogy worksheets

Analogy Worksheets