Writing Helps Page:
Here are a few guidelines for writing in your own personal journal. These guidelines will get you PUMPED for writing each day! It will give you different topics to get you started and keep you excited about writing. Remember, your stories can change as often as you put the pen to the paper!
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/0876289723_44.pdf
With this fun design you will remember and become EXCITED for Letter Writing! Check it out!
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/TCR/1576903443_37.pdf
Practice Quizzes: This website has a handful of Language Arts and Grammar quizzes designed to give you practice in those areas:
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-5th-langbuilders.htm
Extra FUN Activity: Want to be a Journalist? Take time to notice different details that surround other people. Interview a friend/classmate using these questions, but feel free to come up with your own. If you like, imagine yourself as a detective working on your "sluething" skills. You will be suprised what you can learn from asking intuitive questions. Questions can cover anything you'd like them to, but could start with finding out more about person's habits or daily life activities. Then, before you know it, you will know the basics of journalism!
Use the following steps as a starting block for your interview:
Select/detect something that you feel you could find out more about (ie: a person's job, the process of leaves falling from trees, how movie stars get their start, why someone would want to play the tuba, etc.)
Find someone that would know about/have an opinion about that particular something (ie: can try to find an adult that would know about those things, or ask friends/classmates what they think it would be like)
Come up with 5 questions to start the interview and come up with more as the interview is going on (ie: how did you get started as a Tuba player? What made you wonder about leaves falling from trees?, Who is your American Idol?)
After the interview, put the questions and answers into a story as if you were going to read it in a newspaper. Put your own words and flair into the story. After all, this is your personality we want to see coming through what you've found out.