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Writing Skills Worksheets

These worksheets, handouts, templates, and activities target a variety of writing skills, including linguistic flexibility, specificity, descriptiveness, clarity, and elaboration, and help students learn to write character descriptions, movie reviews, and formal letters

Descriptive Writing Worksheets in PDF
Descriptive Writing - Adjectives and Adverbs

This four-page worksheet, also found in Grammar section, contains a wide variety of exercises teaching students to use adjectives and adverbs in their writing.

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Passive and Active Voice Exercises in PDF
Passive and Active Voice Worksheet

This simple worksheet, also found in Grammar section, teaches students how to distinguish between passive and active voice, and encourages them to write in the active voice.

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Character Description Worksheet
Character Descriptions

This literary character analysis activity includes a scaffolding framework from which students learn to write comprehensive character descriptions.

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Vocabulary Worksheets for High School Students
Linguistic Flexibility Worksheet

Linguistic flexibility is an essential component of good writing. This worksheet tasks students with finding several synonyms for underlined words within sentences.

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8th Grade English Worksheet: Perspective Consistency
Perspective Consistency Activity

This activity, also found in the Grammar section, works on the ability to keep a consistent perspective, both verbally and in writing, throughout a given persuasive essay.

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Sentence Clarity Exercises in PDF
Clarity and Simplification Worksheet

Students are tasked with syntactically simplifying phrases and sentences while maintaining original meaning, requiring them to pay close attention to semantics.

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The Movie Reviews Worksheet in PDF
Movie Reviews Outline

This simple, user-friendly movie review outline allows students to write a multi-paragraph essay that includes an introduction, plot summary, critique, and recommendations.

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Redundancy Exercises in PDF
Redundancy Worksheet

This worksheet requires students to identify redundant components within sentences, and then choose which to omit and which to keep in order to maintain maximum meaning.

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Simplification and Elaboration Worksheets
Adding Meaning: Simplify and Elaborate

A student favorite! After simplifying comically obfuscated sentences, students enhance meaning by adding adjectives, adverbs, and other details following a roll of dice.

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Writing a Letter of Complaint Exercise in PDF
Writing A Complaint Letter - Reader Presupposition

This activity, also found in Social Skills, includes a letter sample, writing assignments, and therapeutic notes that target students' ability to regard their potential readers when writing.

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Elaboration Worksheet for 7th Grade
Elaboration when Answering Homework Questions

Teaches students how to evaluate meanings within sentences, encouraging them to elaborate on the meaning of their homework and test answers.

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Middle School Writing Worksheets in PDF: Linguistic Specificity
Linguistic Specificity Worksheet

Students are tasked with replacing non-specific nouns and adjectives within sentences with more specific terms, teaching them to write with more semantic clarity.

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Writing Skills Worksheets Packet PDF
Writing Skills Packet

A collection of all twelve writing skills products improving syntax, expanding lexicon, organizing essays, and enhancing overall written expression.

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Writing Skills Worksheets Packet PDF
Transition Words Worksheet

Transition Words and Phrases helps novice writers and students who struggle with language disorders express themselves with more clarity and complexity.

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