Curriculum Information

Below you'll find information about the Grammar Hive. 

List of Writing Skills

The resources in the Writing Skills Hive focus on the following skills:

• Capitalization
  • Dates
  • Days of the Week
  • First Word in Sentence
  • Geographic Names
  • Holidays
  • Months of the Year
  • People
  • Places
  • Products
  • Streets
  • Titles
  • Towns and Cities
  • Word “I”
• Paragraph Writing
  • Add Details
  • One Idea
  • Stay on Topic
• Punctuation
  • Apostrophes
    • Contractions
    • Possessives
  • Commas
    • Addresses
    • Dates
    • Dialogue
    • Greetings and Closings in Letters
    • Series
  • Exclamation Marks
  • Periods
    • Abbreviations
    • End of Sentences
  • Question Marks
  • Quotation Marks
    • Dialogue
  • Sentence Writing
    • Action Words
    • Combine Sentences
    • Complete and Incomplete
    • Expand Sentences
      • descriptive words
      • use where, when, how, and why
    • Formal and Informal
    • Run-on Sentences
    • Sentences and Fragments
    • Show, Don’t Tell
    • Simple and Compound
    • Subjects and Predicates
    • Subject/Verb Agreement
    • Tenses (past, present, and future)
    • Types (statements, questions, and exclamations)
    • Write a Sentence (capital, end mark, and complete thought)

Types of Writing Skill Activities

You’ll find both digital and printable writing skill activities. The activities include:

• Digital Activities
• Printable Activities
  • Assessments

Ideas For Using Writing Skill Resources 

You can use the writing skill activities in your classroom:

• as part of your regular language arts program,
• as a bell ringer activity,
• for homework practice,
• as an activity for early finishers, or
• in a literacy center.

Season and Holiday Writing Activities

There are a number of writing skill resources that can be used around the following seasons and holidays:

Seasons

• Fall
• Spring
• Summer
• Winter

Holidays

• Back To School
• Christmas
• Earth Day
• Easter
• End of Year
• Halloween
• New Year’s Day
• Patrick’s Day
• Thanksgiving
• Valentine’s Day

Common Core Standards

The activities in the Writing Skills Hive address the following Common Core Standards:

Grade 1 Language Standards

• L.1.2 – Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• L.1.2 a – Capitalize dates and names of people.
• L.1.2.b – Use end punctuation for sentences.
• L.1.2.c – Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.

Grade 2 Language Standards

• L.2.2 – Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• L.2.2.a – Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names.
• L.2.2.b – Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
• L.2.2.c – Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.

Grade 3 Language Standards

• L.3.2 – Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• L.3.2.a – Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
• L.3.2.b – Use commas in addresses.
• L.3.2.c – Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
• L.3.2.d – Form and use possessives.