Writing is such an important skill that begins with developing good sentences and paragraphs. As a classroom teacher, it can be challenging to find writing activities that fit the needs of your students’ diverse abilities. With everyone writing at different levels, how do you give them basic writing practice while also keeping them motivated to write?
Listed below are suggested resources that range from expanded sentence writing to real-world persuasive writing prompts and activities. All these Evan-Moor writing printables can be found in TeacherFileBox, Evan-Moor’s digital lesson library. These printable resources make it easier to meet your students’ learning needs. TeacherFileBox lessons can be printed, projected onto a screen or shared to your Google Classroom.
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Learn more about beginning writing practice activities for grades 1-3.
Draw Then Write Elephant Grades 1–3
Inspire beginning writers with drawing and writing activities that practice foundational writing skills.
Writing Super Sentences Grades 1–3
Help student expand their simple sentences with trait-based writing sentence organizers and writing prompts.
Take It to Your Seat Writing Center: Story Puzzles Grades 1–2
These hands-on story puzzles help beginning writers practice identifying important parts of a story.
Learn more about paragraph writing structure and persuasive writing techniques for grades 3-6
Real-World Writing: Meal Review Grades 3–4
Motivate students to write with creative, real-world topics that apply to them. This meal-review writing activity prompts students to review and rate a restaurant meal. Included in this unit are writing prompts for beginning and advanced writers.
Writing Fabulous Sentences and Paragraphs: Main Ideas and Details Grades 4–6
Identifying a main idea can be tricky. Provide students with opportunities to practice identifying the main idea and supporting details of a paragraph with these activities.
Nonfiction Writing: Writing a Persuasive Essay Grade 5
This in-depth lesson unit includes teaching directions and practice pages to help students identify important components of persuasive writing and build their own arguments!
Get students excited about writing with scaffolded lessons and real-world writing activities in TeacherFileBox! This online library makes it easy to differentiate your lessons with just the click of a button. With thousands of PreK–6 printables across subject areas, TeacherFileBox provides scaffolded learning resources that meet the needs of every student. Choose from in-depth teaching units, hands-on center activities, bulletin boards, art projects, and more! Save your favorite printables in your personal account, print lessons, project them onto a screen, or share them with your Google Classroom! Choose from reading, math, language, writing, science, geography, social studies, STEM/STEAM, SEL and more!
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Heather Foudy is a certified elementary teacher with over 7 years’ experience as an educator and volunteer in the classroom. She enjoys creating lessons that are meaningful and creative for students. She is currently working for Evan-Moor’s marketing and communications team and enjoys building learning opportunities that are both meaningful and creative for students and teachers alike.