Writing Workbook for 5th and 6th Grades: Middle School Writing Practice with 50 Writing Prompts (Writing Workbooks for Middle School ELA)

This middle school writing workbook includes fifty writing prompts and is an ideal choice for fifth and sixth grade students. The workbook begins with an introduction and practice of six literary devices. The included literary devices are alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, metaphors, onomatopoeia, and similes. Then students learn about and practice the four sentence structures. Independent and dependent clauses are explained so students can understand and properly use simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences in their writing. Students apply their understanding of these literary terms and sentence structures to complete a variety of writing prompts.The writing prompts include the following topics:Your Life (10 prompts)Favorites (6 prompts)Opinions (14 prompts)What would you do? (6 prompts)Summarization (4 prompts)Creative Writing (10 prompts)All fifty writing prompts include two lined pages so students have plenty of room to write their responses. Most of the writing prompts have guiding questions and thoughts to help students get started. Some prompts have Try this! sections in the upper right corners which contain suggestions for voluntary writing challenges that key in on specific skills. At the end of each writing prompt, the student is reminded to check punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.Use this writing prompt journal as practice over the summer or as part of a homeschool writing curriculum. Read more