Unit 1 Writing Assignment

Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

Unit 1. Writing Assignment Name: ______

Find one mistake in each sentence. Cross out the mistakes and rewrite the sentences.

My Best Friend Tom harrison and I are best friends. We go to Cherry hill Elementary School. Tom is Smart and funny. he likes to play computer games. We play games Together. tom also likes to play basketball. he is good! I am happy to have Tom as my best Friend.

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Think about your best friend. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What is your best friend’s name? Ideas ______sports art music a lot 2. What does he/she like? books movies ______play also 3. What do you do together? fun very good songs smart ______

4. Is he/she talented? How? ______

Now write a paragraph about your best friend. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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______and I are best friends. ______I am happy to have ______as my best friend.

Check your sentences. Did you use capital letters correctly?

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New Rollerblades Kelly have new rollerblades. She like them a lot. They is purple and green. She bring them to school. She show them to her friend, Jane. Jane have rollerblades, too. She say, “Let’s rollerblade after lunch.” Kelly think that is a good idea. Kelly say, “OK!” Kelly and Jane has fun on their rollerblades.

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Think about something new you have. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What is it/are they? ______game Ideasjump rope bike bag 2. What color is it/are they? pencil case bicycle ______shoes brown 3. Who do you show it/them to? (have) stripes pink friend teacher ______gray silver “I like them!” “Nice!” 4. What does he/she say? “Let’s ride it!” “Can I try it?” ______

Now write a paragraph about your new item. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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I have (a) new ______We enjoy my new ______

Check your sentences. Do all of your subjects and verbs agree?

Find one punctuation mistake in each sentence. Cross out the mistakes and rewrite the sentences.

The Museum of Music Sam and Julie are at the museum of music They are looking at a piano, A museum guide is telling them about the piano? It is very old It is from 1795? Julie wants to play the piano! She asks, “Can I play a song on the piano!” The answer is no? The piano is too old

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Think about your favorite museum. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What is your favorite museum? Ideas ______art museum paintings science museum microscopes 2. What does it have? history museum statues ______car museum trucks 3. Who teaches you about the museum? videos songs things to touch exciting ______great things to see pictures of animals 4. Why is this museum interesting? fun ______

Now write a paragraph about your favorite museum. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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My favorite museum is ______I like the museum because it is ______. 3 Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

Check your sentences. Did you use end punctuation correctly?

Matt’s Rocks Matt collecting rocks. He looking at his rocks now. The rocks is lying around him. He is smile happily. He is knowing a lot about rocks. He are holding a big, black rock. He is tell his little brother about the rock. His little brother are listening carefully.

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Choose a picture in a magazine or from the Internet. There must be people in the picture. Answer the questions in complete sentences. Ideas

1. How many people are in the picture? park shoes ______pants dress hat coat 2. What are the people wearing? shirt museum ______theater street mall party 3. What are they doing? shopping picnic ______soccer game museum

4. Where are the people? Why are they there? Are they having a good time? ______

Now write a paragraph about the picture. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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There are ______people in this picture.______I think these people ______a good time. 4 Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

Check your sentences. Did you use the present progressive tense correctly?

Find eight pronoun mistakes. Cross out the mistakes and rewrite the sentences.

Missing MP3 Player Justin rides the bus to school and listens to he MP3 player. At school, he puts our MP3 player in his desk. Later, he can’t find her. He looks in his desk. He looks in its backpack. Kayla knows where they is. Her is smiling. She says, “I love this song! Do yours want to listen?” Justin laughs. Kayla has him MP3 player.

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Think about something you lost for a short time. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What is missing? Ideas ______keys shoes homework backpack 2. Where do you look for it? cell phone camera ______pencil case in 3. Where else do you look for it? on next to behind under bed ______bag desk garbage can kitchen 4. Where do you find it? living room bathroom ______

Now write a paragraph about your missing item. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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My ______is missing. ______

______I’m glad ______found it!

Check your sentences. Did you use pronouns correctly?

Find eight mistakes with adjectives. Cross out the mistakes and rewrite the sentences.

Happy Birthday It is Monica’s birthday. Monica sad is. There are no presents pretty at home. At school, her friend best doesn’t say “Happy Birthday.” This is terrible a birthday. After school, there is no food special. There are tasty no treats. Monica is very sad. Then she hears music loud. She goes outside. She sees her friends. “Surprise! Happy birthday, Monica!” Now she happy is.

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Think about a surprise you had. Answer the questions in complete sentences. Ideas 1. How do you feel before the surprise? ______happy sad excited nervous 2. What is the surprise for? afraid surprised ______friends family for fun for my birthday 3. Who surprises you? passing an exam ______for cheering me up friends family 4. How do you feel after the surprise? teacher brother/sister ______

Now write a paragraph about your surprise. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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I feel ______My surprise is ______

Check your sentences. Did you use adjectives correctly?

Pizza Party Kristen is having a pizza fun party for her birthday. There are cheesy, three, delicious pizzas. There are exciting, many, new games at the party. Kids throw balls into small and medium and large baskets. The music is loud, great! Everyone is having a good, time.

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Think about your family vacations. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What kind of vacations does your family like? Ideas ______camping trip trip to the beach relax at home visit relatives 2. What do you do on these vacations? fun happy ______exciting good 3. How are your family vacations? noodles steak seafood cake ______yummy bad spicy chewy 4. What foods do you eat? How do they taste? sad disgusting ______

Now write a paragraph about a vacation you had with your family. Use some of the sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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______with my family. ______I have a ______time when I ______with my family!

Check your adjectives. Did you use commas correctly?

Unit 8. Writing Assignment Name: ______Find six mistakes. Cross them out and rewrite the sentences.

Look at Them Go! Today is sports day at my school! We are watching close. Megan jumps high very. Bill is swimming hardly. Tom runs fastly. Look at him go! Oh, Tom is winning the race! He is smiling happy. He runs good. That was fun to watch. I can’t wait to give Tom a high five! ______

______What is your favorite sport? Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What is your favorite sport? Ideas ______baseball soccer 2. Who do you play this sport with? How do you play? tennis judo brother friend ______jump kick 3. What do you do when you play this sport? throw hit a ball How do you do this? slowly fast well poorly ______quickly happily 4. What do you do after you win a game? celebrate sing smile laugh ______Now write a paragraph about your favorite sport, playing it, and your favorite athletes who play it. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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My favorite sport is ______. ______I hope I can ______someday! Check your sentences. Did you use adverbs correctly?

Find the six words with missing apostrophes (’). Circle them and rewrite the sentences using apostrophes. The Game Ryan and Justin are at Ryans house. They are playing a game. Justins cards are better. Ryans mom brings a snack over. Yum! Justins cookies are chocolate. Ryans are vanilla. Ryan loves this card game. It’s Ryans favorite game. He is so happy that Justin likes the game too!

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Think about your brother or sister’s favorite thing. Answer the questions in complete sentences. Ideas 1. What is your brother or sister’s favorite thing? ______Green doll blue statue 2. What color is it? toy train red ______computer yellow 3. Why do you like it? desk yo-yo fun to use fun to play with ______make stories dress it do tricks play a game 4. What do you do with it? ______

Now write a paragraph about things in your house. Use your sentences above. Try to use apostrophes. Add some new ideas, too.

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I really like my ______’s ______. ______. We have fun playing with my ______’s ______!

Check your sentences. Did you use apostrophes correctly?

Find five mistakes with can and can’t. Cross them out and rewrite the sentences. Chimpanzees Chimpanzees are very smart animals. In fact, they can to do almost everything people do! They can living in groups and help each other. They use can computers. They are kind to each other. Mother chimpanzees feed their babies when the babies cant do it themselves--just like people. I hope I can sees a chimpanzee one day!

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Think about what you can and can’t do. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What can you do now that you couldn’t do last year? Ideas ______whistle speak English do a cartwheel run fast 2. Can you do this well? play tennis ride a bicycle ______make cookies ride the bus 3. How did you learn to do this? climb mountains cook spaghetti play an instrument ______practice hard take lessons ask my teacher/parents 4. What do you want to learn next? study a lot ______

Now write a paragraph about you can do, and what you want to do. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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Right now, I can ______. I ______do this ______I To learn to do this I ______Next, I want to learn______.

Check your sentences. Did you use “can” and “can’t” correctly?

Find the verb mistake in each sentence. Circle them and rewrite the sentences using the simple past tense.

Going to the Park Last weekend, my dad and I go to the park. We go there by bus. We sit on the bench together. It is nice. We bringed lunch. We have sandwiches and juice. We throw the ball. Other kids want to play with us. We playing with them too! It are fun.

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Think about last year. Answer the questions in complete sentences. Ideas 1. What is something good that happened last year? vacation birthday party ______school trip trip to amusement park 2. Who did you do this with? family friends ______classmates best friend sang karaoke ate delicious food 3. Where did you do it? played rode ______opened presents walked great fun 4. How was it? exciting 11 Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

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Now write a paragraph about something that happened in the last year. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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In this last year I ______. ______It was ______!

Check your sentences. Did you use the simple past tense correctly?

Find six preposition mistakes and circle them. Rewrite the sentences using the correct prepositions.

My Bedroom I love my bedroom. It is next from my sister’s room. I keep my books over my bookshelf. I do my homework under my bedroom. There is a window below my bed and the bookshelf. It is such a nice room. My bedroom is across to the kitchen. When my mom cooks food, I can smell it behind my room!

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Think about your house. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. Where is your bedroom? Ideas ______desk window computer bed 2. What is in your bedroom? books television ______backpack posters 3. What do you put under your bed? next to across from under close to the kitchen ______behind near the bathroom on pretty wallpaper 4. What do you like about your room? nice color comfortable 12 my space quiet Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

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Now write a paragraph about your house. Use your sentences above. Try to use prepositions. Add some new ideas, too.

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My house is ______. The______is ______. I like that my house ______.

Check your sentences. Did you use prepositions correctly?

Find five incorrect prepositions of time. Rewrite the sentences using the correct prepositions.

What a Busy Day! Today was such a busy day! I had to wake up in exactly seven o’clock. To eight o’clock from three o’clock, I was at school. At school, I had a lot of fun. Before school, at four o’clock, I had a piano lesson. For my lesson, I made a lot of mistakes. I was really tired. Next time, I’ll do better!

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Think about your day at school. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What time did you wake up today? Ideas ______ate breakfast took a shower studied math had dinner 2. What did you do before school? got dressed had fun ______at after 3. What happened at school? before read a book rested did homework ______played with friends ate dinner watched TV 4. What did you do when you got home? used the Internet 13 Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

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Now write a paragraph about your day. Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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Today I woke up at ______. ______It was a good day.

Check your sentences. Did you use prepositions of time correctly?

Find five mistakes. Rewrite the sentences using the correct comparative and superlative words.

Classmates My classmates at school are all good at something. Tom is the smarter. Jamie is best than Tom at sports. I study hardest than everyone else. Kristen is the worse at math. But she is the most good at English! Tom helps Kristen with math, and Kristen helps Tom with English.

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Think about your classmates. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What are you good at? Ideas ______math English science sport 2. Who can you help in your class? How can you help them? speaking writing ______best better 3. Who is better than you at something? What is he/she better at? vocabulary worse homework find answers ______study for tests 14 Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

4. How does he/she help you? ______

Now write a paragraph about your classmates. Use your sentences above. Try to use comparative and superlative words. Add some new ideas, too.

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My classmates and I like to help each other.______. One day I hope to be the best at ______.

Check your sentences. Did you use comparative and superlative words correctly?

Find the four incorrect transition words. Cross them out and rewrite the sentences with the correct transition words.

The Science Museum Yesterday we went on a field trip to the science museum. It was really fun! Second, we got on the bus at about nine o’clock. First, we went to the museum. We spent a lot of the day looking at exhibits. We expected to be bored. Finally, they were really fun, and I could use my hands! We wanted to stay. Therefore, it was time to go home.

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Think about a field trip you liked. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What did you do first that day? Ideas ______got on the bus bought a ticket studied science saw interesting things 2. What are the things you did on the field trip? school museum ______planetarium zoo 3. When did you have lunch? What did you do after lunch? had fun before after talked with my friends looked at read 15 learned about wrote a report next finally Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

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4. What did you do after you got home? ______

Now write a paragraph about your dream field trip. Pretend it just happened. What did you do? What happened first, second and third? Use what you learned above to write a short paragraph. ______

I just had a great field trip! First, we ______. ______.

Check your sentences. Did you use transition words correctly?

Find the five incorrect verb forms. Cross out the mistakes and rewrite the sentences.

My Little Brother’s Dream Job My little brother has a big dream. He is an astronaut. He goes to outer space one day! He is take a picture of Earth from outer space. Astronauts have to learn a lot, so he is to study hard. He is learn about outer space. I hope I can visit my brother on Mars!

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Think about a dream job. What do you want to do? Answer the questions in complete sentences. Ideas

1. What is your dream? to become to have ______family job scientist doctor 2. What are you going to do to get your dream? work hard study ______win an award hope 3. What do you hope to do with it? help people make money do good things be lazy a big house a happy family16 a lot of money a nice car Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

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4. What else do you hope to have? ______

Now write a paragraph about you in the future. What are you hoping for? Use your sentences above. Add some new ideas, too.

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When I grow up, I want to______. ______. I hope my dreams come true!

Check your sentences. Did you use “going to” and “hope to” correctly?

Answer Key

Unit 1 Tom Harrison and I are best friends. We go to Cherry Hill Elementary School. Tom is smart and funny. He likes to play computer games. We play games together. Tom also likes to play basketball. He is good. I am happy to have Tom as my best friend.

Unit 2 Sam and Julie are at the museum of music. They are looking at a piano. A museum guide is telling them about the piano. It is very old. It is from 1795. Julie wants to play the piano. She asks, “Can I play a song on the piano?” The answer is no. The piano is too old.

Unit 3 Matt collects rocks. He is looking at his rocks now. The rocks are lying around him. He is smiling happily. He knows a lot about rocks. He is holding a big, black rock. He is telling his little brother about the rock. His little brother is listening carefully.

Unit 4 Kelly has new rollerblades. She likes them a lot. They are purple and green. She brings them to school. She shows them to her friend, Jane. Jane has rollerblades, too. She says, “Let’s

17 Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet rollerblade after lunch.” Kelly thinks that is a good idea. Kelly says, “OK!” Kelly and Jane have fun on their rollerblades.

Unit 5

Justin rides the bus to school and listens to his MP3 player. At school, he puts his MP3 player in his desk. Later, he can’t find it. He looks in his desk. He looks in his backpack. Kayla knows where it is. She is smiling. She says, “I love this song! Do you want to listen?” Justin laughs. Kayla has his MP3 player.

Unit 6 It is Monica’s birthday. Monica is sad. There are no pretty presents at home. At school, her best friend doesn’t say “Happy Birthday.” This is a terrible birthday. After school, there is no special food. There are no tasty treats. Monica is very sad. Then, she hears loud music. She goes outside. She sees her friends. “Surprise! Happy birthday, Monica!” Now she is happy.

Unit 7 Kristen is having a fun pizza party for her birthday. There are three delicious, cheesy pizzas. There are many exciting , new games at the party. Kids throw balls into small , medium, and large baskets. The music is loud and great! Everyone is having a good time.

Unit 8 Today is sports day at my school! We are watching closely. Megan jumps very high. Bill is swimming hard. Tom runs fast. Look at him go! Oh, Tom is winning the race! He is smiling happily. He runs well. That was fun to watch. I can’t wait to give Tom a high five!

Unit 9 Ryan and Justin are at Ryan’s house. They are playing a game. Justin’s cards are better. Ryan’s mom brings a snack over. Yum! Justin’s cookies are chocolate. Ryan’s are vanilla. Ryan loves this card game. It’s Ryan’s favorite game He is so happy that Justin likes the game too!

Unit 10 18 Writing Starter 1, 2nd – Writing Worksheet

Chimpanzees are very smart animals. In fact, they can do almost everything people do! They can live in groups and help each other. They can use computers. They are kind to each other. Mother chimpanzees feed their babies when the babies can’t do it themselves--just like people. I hope I can see a chimpanzee one day!

Unit 11 Last weekend, my dad and I went to the park. We went there by bus. We sat on the bench together. It was nice. We brought lunch. We had sandwiches and juice. We threw the ball. Other kids wanted to play with us. We played with them too! It was fun.

Unit 12 I love my bedroom. It is next to/across from my sister’s room. I keep my books in/on my bookshelf. I do my homework in my bedroom. There is a window between my bed and the bookshelf. It is such a nice room. My bedroom is across from the kitchen. When my mom cooks food, I can smell it in my room!

Unit 13 Today was such a busy day! I had to wake up at exactly seven o’clock. From eight o’clock to three o’clock, I was at school. At school, I had a lot of fun. Before school, at four o’clock in the afternoon, I had a piano lesson. During my lesson, I made a lot of mistakes. I was really tired. Next time, I’ll do better.

Unit 14 My classmates at school are all good at something. Tom is the smartest. Jamie is better than Tom at sports. I study harder than everyone else. Kristen is the worst at math. But she is the best at English! Tom helps Kristen with math, and Kristen helps Tom with English.

Unit 15 Yesterday we went on a field trip to the science museum. It was really fun! First, we got on the bus at about nine o’clock. Second/Then/Next, we went to the museum. We spent a lot of the day looking at exhibits. We expected to be bored. However, they were really fun, and I could use my hands! We wanted to stay. But,/However it was time to go home.

Unit 16

My little brother has a big dream. He wants to be/hopes to be an astronaut. He hopes/wants to go to outer space one day! He hopes/wants to take a picture of the Earth from outer space. Astronauts have to learn a lot, so he is going to study hard. He is going to learn about outer space. I hope I can visit my brother on Mars!