Writing teaching resources for Canada
30 High School ELA End-of-the-School-Year Reflection Bell Ringers
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Thirty dated bell-ringer prompts ask high school students to reflect in writing on a specific area of academic growth, from goal-setting to resilience, across a rotating set of about fifteen themes.
Author Homeschool with Big Easy Homeschooling Mom
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Tags Bell Ringers, Growth Mindset, Writing Prompts, End Of Year
5-Paragraph Essay Outline with Instructions
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A seven-step guide to using a 5-paragraph essay outline precedes a fill-in outline template with labeled sections for the introduction, three body paragraphs, and conclusion.
Author Homeschool with Big Easy Homeschooling Mom
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Tags Essay Outline, Writing Template, Essay Structure, Student/homeschooler Writing Activity, Essay Writing Guide, Thesis Statement , Middle & High School/homeschool Essays, Writing Resources, Academic Writing Skillsa
6th Grade Handwriting Curriculum | Year-Long Printable Workbook | Sixt
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Teachers can distribute pages daily, staple them into weekly packets, or collect them in a binder using the consistent headspace. The opening review sequence revisits diagonal, curved, and zigzag strokes before later work develops readable letter formation and connected practice. A thirty-word commonly misspelled list supplies age-aligned language content. Across the year, repeated short sessions combine handwriting fluency with spelling and vocabulary exposure rather than treating penmanship as a single isolated unit.
Author Simply Schoolgirl
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Tags Handwriting, Sixth Grade Handwriting, 6th Grade Handwriting
A Letter to My Future Self - New Year Writing Prompt
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Students write a letter to their future December self about hopes and accomplishments, then draw a picture of themselves achieving that vision.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Writing, Winter Writing, Winter Writing Prompts, New Year Writing Prompts, Prompts, Letter, Goal Setting, Letter Writing
A Rainy Day Adventure - Writing Prompt
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A rainy spring day writing prompt is paired with a matching drawing page so students put the same imagined adventure into words and a picture.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Writing, Writing Prompts, Writing Activities, Spring, Spring Writing Prompts, Spring Activities, Spring Writing, Spring Coloring, Ela, Writing Centers
ABC Chart in Spanish with Translation Shown in English
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The central chart sequences thirty Spanish letter or digraph entries, each associated with a Spanish example word. A companion version adds an English gloss for each picture word, while a numbered chart supports three bilingual matching worksheets. Learners connect each number with its letter and then write the pictured object name in Spanish with an article cue. The combination moves from alphabet reference to vocabulary retrieval without requiring the English translation on every activity page.
Author Soumara Siddiqui
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Tags ABC Chart In Spanish, ABC Chart In Spanish And English, ABC Quiz, ABC Writing, Chart Translation Spanish
ABC Roll and Trace
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Each board directs learners to roll a die, locate the corresponding column, and trace a letter in that column until one path reaches the top. Across ten supplied pages, the repeated game structure changes the letter forms available for practice. Chance determines the tracing sequence, which can sustain attention while still producing many handwriting repetitions. The exact board-by-board letter inventory remains held for visual confirmation.
Author Cherry Workshop
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Tags ABC , Alphabet, Tracing, Phonics, Abc Trace Printables, Roll And Write Letters
Academic Integrity - Plagiarism, Paraphrasing & Quoting - An introduction PowerPoint
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Three rewritten versions of the same news passage teach students to tell plagiarism, paraphrasing, and quotation apart.
Author The Laughing Linguist
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Tags Writing Lesson Plan, Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, Paraphasing, Quoting, Paraphrasing Powerpoints
Adjectives Activity
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Six plain sentences are rewritten by students to add descriptive adjectives on a single grammar practice page.
Author Educational Voice
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Tags Adjectives, Adjectives For Kids, English, English For Kids, Activities, Practice, Sentence Writing, Grammar Practice, Writing Practice, Descriptive Writing
All About my Name Activity
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A personalized page has students circle the letters of their own name on a full A-to-Z grid, then record its length, first letter and last letter.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags My Name, All About My Name, Back To School, Back To School Activities, First Day Of School, First Day Of School Activities, Handwriting, Back To School Literacy
Alphabet Handwriting Boxes with Capital Letters
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Each of the 26 capital letters gets its own handwriting practice page, with a repeated model row at the top and rows below for a student to write the letter independently.
Author The Connett Connection
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Tags Handwriting Practice, Letter Formation, Handwriting Boxes, Alphabet Writing, Tracing Letters, Capital Handwriting, Handwriting Capital G
Alphabetical Order
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An alphabetical-order activity is promised by the title, but the only readable text extracted from this 38-page file is a Teachers Pay Teachers seller-credits grid.
Author Life with 5 Boys
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Tags ABC Order, Words In Alphabetical Order, Alphabetical Order
Animal Adaptations in the Rainforest Habitat
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A four-part rainforest bundle combines a slideshow, task cards, an animal-matching card game, and an 82-page workbook covering habitats, adaptations, reading, and writing.
Author Quail Trail Products
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Tags Animal Adaptations, Rainforest Habitat, Rainforest Animals, Ecology, Science Education
Animal Farm Ch 9: Eulogy for Boxer's funeral Creative Writing + rubric Google
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After reading Chapter 9 of Animal Farm, students write a eulogy for Boxer as a short narrative paragraph or a poem, speaking from a farm animal's point of view or, for a greater challenge, one of the pigs. The assignment requires a personal story establishing the writer's relationship to Boxer, his noteworthy traits and values, at least two annotated literary devices, and one integrated quotation from the text. Two model eulogies built on other well-known texts — Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' and Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' — demonstrate the narrative and poetic formats before students draft their own. A five-criteria rubric scores voice/point of view, personal story and traits, opening and closing statements, literary-device use, and quotation integration.
Author The Red-Haired Reader
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Tags Eulogy, Writing, Creative, Character, Analysis, Synthesis, Assignment
Animal Farm Post-Reading Creative Writing Assignment: What Would Old Major say?
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George Orwell's Old Major returns from the dead to react to the other animals' chapter-10 outcome in this creative writing assignment, letting students choose a letter, song, podcast, journal entry, or poem.
Author The Red-Haired Reader
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Tags Creative Writing, Character Analysis
Asking and Answering Questions Worksheet
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Asking and Answering Questions structures active listening during a presentation or oral explanation. Students first identify the speaker’s topic, then record a question that helps them gather information or resolve confusion. A paired area captures the answer they receive. The format emphasizes that productive listening involves noticing gaps in understanding and seeking clarification rather than passively hearing words. It can also support discussion of relevant questions and complete, topic-connected answers.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Speaking And Listening, Prompts, Research, Why Questions Worksheet
Autobiography Worksheet
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The opening page defines autobiography as writing by an author about their own life and frames it as both reflection and self-discovery. Prompt areas ask for birth information, childhood memories, current enjoyment, an achievement, and a valued personal quality. Learners develop those notes into a short first-person account, with the second page providing continued writing space. The structure supports personal narrative organization without prescribing any private detail beyond the listed categories.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Narratives, Autobiography Sentence Starters
BED Anchor Chart | Teaching B and D
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The BED Anchor Chart presents a mnemonic for a common letter reversal. When the word bed is written in order, the tall stem of b appears at the beginning and the tall stem of d appears at the end, with the middle letter forming the mattress-like centre. Learners can recall or gesture the whole word when deciding which letter they see or need to write. The single visual works as a desk reference, wall reminder, or decoding prompt.
Author First in Line
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Tags Letters, Alphabet, Reading, Anchor Chart, Reading Notebook, Bed Trick For B And D, Bed Charts, Bed Chart
Black History Month Creative Writing Prompts with Story Cards
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Twenty Black history figure cards combine with a story-planning organizer and sentence starter to generate original short stories, scored by a rubric.
Author Heather Huhman
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Tags Black History, Creative Writing, Writing, Early Writing, Elementary Writing, Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Mae Jemison, MLK
Capitalization Practice and Activities, 3rd Grade Grammar Worksheets
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Each worksheet presents six lowercase or undercapitalized sentences for learners to rewrite correctly. Across the eight pages, examples cover names of people and pets, countries and cities, landmarks, bodies of water, historical groups, holidays, months, book titles, institutions, and other proper nouns. The consistent format provides substantial repetition while the varied contexts broaden rule application. Teachers can assign pages individually for focused review.
Author TeacherYouWant
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Tags Third Grade, Grammar, Worksheets And Activities, Home School
Citing Evidence from the Text Worksheet
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The worksheet guides readers from identifying a book or article to writing an evidence-supported opinion about it. Dedicated fields capture the text's title, what it is about, the learner's position, supporting reasons, and a concluding restatement. Directions suggest connective words that link the opinion with reasons. The structure integrates reading and writing while leaving the choice of source and stance open for different classroom texts.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Essays
Concise Writing Practice
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Eight sentences riddled with wordiness or redundancy are rewritten and explained by students, with a full answer key providing one accepted revision per sentence.
Author ELA Resources
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Tags Writing Practice, Literacy, Sentence Writing, Editing, Revision
CONFLICT: The FIVE Elements of a Story Graphic Organizers
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Ten blank graphic organizers guide students through analyzing a story's conflict from different angles, from a basic problem/solution chart to a chart classifying conflict as character-versus-nature, -self, -society or -character.
Author Ibby Resources
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Tags Study, Skills, Character, Graphic Organizer, Story Elements
COPS Editing Strategy | Class Posters for The Writing Process
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C.O.P.S. self-editing — Capitalization, Organize Sentences, Punctuation, Spelling — is unpacked on an overview chart plus four single-letter posters with checkmarked reminders for each editing step.
Author The Language of Learning
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Tags Editing, Proofreading, Writing Process, Grammar, Posters