Writing teaching resources for Canada
How to Brush Your Teeth – Sequencing & Writing
, Not Grade Specific,
Introductory pages explain how-to writing as clear, ordered explanation and provide transition words for beginnings, middle steps, and endings. Separate editing checklists address early and more experienced writers. The activity then offers modeled procedure text, short step cards, sequencing options, and writing pages that let learners reconstruct and explain the process at different levels of independence. New copy avoids repeating health-frequency claims from the sample and focuses on the verified writing instruction.
Author Simply Schoolgirl
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Tags Writing Center, Editing Checklist, Informational, Expository, How-to, Personal Hygeine, Sequencing, Editing, Emerging Writer, New Writer
How to Worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,
The open organizer can be applied to any task that learners know well enough to teach. Partners write a series of ordered steps, add visual and label support, and physically rehearse the procedure to identify missing or misplaced actions. A reminder to use enough detail shifts the goal from merely listing actions to communicating a usable process. The blank topic makes the page adaptable while the verification routine keeps writing grounded in performance.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Sequencing, Essays
How to Write An Essay: What Is a Descriptive Essay? - FLASH-PC
, Not Grade Specific,
An interactive descriptive-essay software lesson pairs a reading passage on objective versus subjective description with graphic organizers and a 4-level writing rubric.
Author Classroom Complete Press
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Tags Software (PC)
How To Write To Persuade In Newspaper Articles (9-14 years)
, Not Grade Specific,
The pack begins by defining persuasive purpose and asking writers to consider viewpoint, audience, message, and organization. Successive teaching pages examine figurative language, fact versus opinion, connectives, rhetorical questions, repetition, emotive wording, contrast, pronouns, statistics, quotations, and other persuasive choices. Newspaper-specific sections then address bias, formal and informal registers, headlines, captions, direct speech, and reported speech. Model reports lead into a letter-writing prompt that asks learners to challenge a newspaper position.
Author Guinea Pig Education
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Tags Persuasive Writing, Literacy Skills, Non-fiction Writing, Persuasive Techniques, Newspaper Articles
Ice Skating Fun Writing Prompt - Winter Writing Activity
, Not Grade Specific,
One page prompts students to write about the joy of ice skating on a frozen pond or rink, and a matching page asks them to draw children gliding and laughing on the ice.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Winter Writing Activity, Winter Writing Prompts, Winter Activities, Writing Prompts, Christmas Writing Activity, Christmas Writing Prompts, Christmas Activities
Personal Identity Chart – Self-Reflection Tool
, Not Grade Specific,
Self-image, relationships, and culture are explored across four quadrants of a "Who Am I?" identity chart graphic organizer.
Author Cogjogger
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Tags Identity Chart, Graphic Organizers, Creative Writing, Identity Diagram, Chart, Self-reflection
If I Were a Firefighter - Writing Prompt
, Not Grade Specific,
Students imagine a day as a firefighter in a short written response, then draw themselves in uniform helping at a fire scene.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Writing, Writing Prompt, Career, Careers, Firefighter, Writing Prompts, Careers Writing Prompts, Spring, Writing Centers, Literacy
If I Were a Tree - Writing Prompt
, Not Grade Specific,
An Earth Day prompt in two matched halves: one page asks students to write about their life as a tree, and the other asks them to draw themselves as one, showing what surrounds them in their tree home.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Earth Day, Earth Day Drawing, Earth Day Writing, Earth Day Writing Prompts, Writing Prompts, Spring Writing, Spring Writing Prompts, No Prep
If I Were a Veterinarian - Writing Prompt
, Not Grade Specific,
Two prompts ask students to write about which animals they would help as a veterinarian and how, then draw themselves in the role with the animals and tools they would use.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Writing, Writing Prompt, Writing Prompts, Spring, Writing Centers, Spring Writing Prompts, Career, Careers, Labor Day, Labor Day Writing
Industrial Revolution - The Urban Game
, Not Grade Specific,
Students hand-draw and progressively redraw a village map through 21 narrated historical rounds to simulate how canals, factories, and railroads transformed the English countryside during the Industrial Revolution.
Author Living History Resources
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Tags History Games, Industrial Revolution, World History, Capitalists, Industrial Revolution Game
Informative Essay Introduction Paragraph
, Not Grade Specific,
A five-day informative essay unit teaches the hook-arch-thesis structure for introduction paragraphs, moving students from guided notes to independent practice paragraphs and a multiple-choice assessment.
Author Mrs. Spangler in the Middle
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Tags Informative Essay, Essay Writing, Introduction Paragraph, Writing Process, Google Classroom, How To Write An Introductory Paragraph For An Informative Essay, Intro For Informative Essay, Introduction Informative Essay, How To Write An Intro Paragraph For An Informative Essay, Introduction Paragraph Informative Essay, How To Write An Introduction Paragraph For An Informative Essay, Informative Introduction, Essay, Introduction, Guided Notes, Paragraph Writing
"Lord of the Flies" Booklet Project
, Not Grade Specific,
Character illustration, mini-essay questions, and passage analysis on setting, tone, and symbolism combine into a cut-and-staple Lord of the Flies response booklet.
Author The Comprehensive Teacher
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Tags Booklet Project, Lord Of The Flies, Novel, Characters, Mini Essays, Compare And Contrast, Symbols, Morals, Writing Prompts, Mini Essay, Lord Of The Flies Lesson Plans
Make Sentences With The Sentence Maker: Book 1 (4-7 years)
, Not Grade Specific,
Book One introduces sentence construction through a fold-and-assemble maker rather than a conventional response sheet. Learners first read short models such as It is a cat and Tell me, if it is a pup? They then select from repeated function words, picture nouns, and punctuation marks to build additional sentences. Cut and fold lines show where the maker is assembled, keeping the word choices aligned during practice.
Author Guinea Pig Education
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Tags Sentence Building , Start Writing, Sentence Writing, English
Manuscript Handwriting Worksheets
, Not Grade Specific,
Repeating tracing pages take students through lowercase manuscript letters, starting with individual letters and building into short traced letter combinations.
Author The Connett Connection
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Tags Manuscript, Handwriting Worksheets, Handwriting Practice, Print, Letter Formation, Alphabet Worksheets, Alphabet Writing
MLA Style Powerpoint
, Not Grade Specific,
A lecture-style slideshow walks students through MLA in-text citation and Works Cited formatting for print, electronic, and media sources.
Author Educate and Create
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Tags Research, MLA, College Writing, Mla Powerpoint, Mla Format In Powerpoint, Powerpoint
My ABC Sentences!
, Not Grade Specific,
One worksheet per letter of the alphabet gives a scrambled set of words for a student to reorder into a complete sentence, then colour a matching picture.
Author Journeys In Learning
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Tags Educational Resource, Language Arts, Sentence Formation, Fine Motor Skills, Active Learning
Narrative Rubric – Student & Peer Self-Assessment
, Not Grade Specific,
A two-column narrative-writing rubric lets a writer and peer editor jointly score a completed narrative across four criteria using a shared STEAL character-development vocabulary.
Author ELA Resources
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Tags Narratives, Creative Writing, Writing Prompts, Student Rubric, Assessments, Writing Rubric, Personal Narrative Rubric, Rubric
Sizzling Starts Posters - 15 Story Opening Techniques
, Not Grade Specific,
Fifteen story-opening techniques -- action, dialogue, onomatopoeia, and more -- are each illustrated with a short example paragraph for use as a writing mentor text or classroom display.
Author Teach2Tell
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Tags Narrative Writing, Story Openings, Story Openers, Introduction, Exposition, Orientation, Sizzling Starts, Sizzling Starters, Teach Narrative Writing, Strong Leads
Natural Disasters Research Worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,
The page frames preparation knowledge as a way to feel and be safer during natural disasters. Separate spaces are provided for an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, and drought. For each, learners investigate actions that can be taken by one person, a group, or an entire community, record findings, and draw an accompanying image. The task emphasizes preparedness research across different scales instead of supplying procedures or asking learners to memorize unsupported safety guarantees.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Weather, Research, Natural Disaster Activities, Natural Disasters Lesson Plans Pdf
News Story Writing Rubric
, Not Grade Specific,
A 50-point rubric scores a news story across content, organization, and mechanics, with two copies printed per page for easy handout.
Author The Language of Learning
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Tags Writing Rubric, Student Rubric, News Story, Creative Writing, Literacy Center
Newspaper Templates – 4 Styles for Google Docs
, Not Grade Specific,
Two Google Docs newspaper layouts are shared as read-only masters that students copy into their own Drive to write and format a class newspaper.
Author Roombop
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Tags Newspaper, News Template, Google Docs Newspaper Template, Newspaper Templates For Students, Class Newspaper Templates, Editable Newspaper Template Google Docs, Template, Google, Writing Template, Digital Activity
Nonfiction Text Features Posters | Ready-to-Print Anchor Charts
, Not Grade Specific,
Eight ready-to-print anchor-chart posters introduce nonfiction text features for classroom wall display.
Author Teacher's Clipart
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Tags Nonfiction, Features, Poster, Report, Non Fiction Text Structure Posters, Informational Text Features Posters
Opinion Writing Anchor Chart – O.R.E.O. Method
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Opinion Writing Anchor Chart presents the O.R.E.O. structure as four ordered moves. Writers state an opinion, provide reasons, explain those reasons, and close by stating the opinion again. The second chart removes the key words from the same sequence, allowing learners to reconstruct the framework rather than only reread the completed reference. The identical order on both pages keeps the mnemonic stable while changing the task from reference use to recall.
Author First in Line
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Tags Writing Lesson, Writing Chart, Opinion Writing, Fiction Text, Reading Poster, Oreo Anchor Chart
OREO Opinion Writing – Editable Graphic Organizer
, Not Grade Specific,
Two graphic-organizer layouts guide students through the OREO opinion-writing structure — stating an opinion, giving reasons and examples, then restating the opinion — available as a printable PDF or an editable Google Doc.
Author Roombop
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Tags Google Docs, Oreo Opinion, Opinion Graphic Organizer, Google, Oreo Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer, Oreo Opinion Writing Examples, Oreo Writing, Google Doc Graphic Organizer, Oreo Writing Template, Fillable Graphic Organizer, Opinion Writing Oreo