The Weekly Text, 19 December 2025: The Writing Revolution Templates II; Worksheets

As we slide into the holidays (there will be no Weekly Texts for the next two Fridays), this week’s Text is a list of worksheet templates developed from Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler’s excellent framework for writing instuction, The Writing Revolution (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2017). First of all, here is the worksheets templates table of contents. And here are the worksheet templates themselves:

II-A*What Makes a Sentence a Sentence; Fragments, Scrambled Sentences, and Run-Ons

II-B*Piece It Together; Unscrambling Scrambled Sentences

II-C*Put the Brakes On; Correcting Run-On Sentences

II-D*Four Types of Sentence Writing, Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative and Exclamatory (Four Templates in One Document)

II-E*What Do You Know? Developing Questions

II-F*Let’s Play Jeopardy; Giving Students the Answers and Asking for Questions

II-G*The Power of Basic Conjunctions Because, But, So

II-H*How to Say It in Writing–Ten Subordinating Conjunctions Distributed Over Three Worksheet Templates

II-I*Another Name for a Noun; Appositive and Matching Appositives (Two Templates in One Document)

II-J*Put Them Together; Sentence Combining

II-K* Sentence Expansion; Bigger and Better–Expanding Sentences to Expand Students’ Knowledge and Responses and What Do You See? Using Sentence Expansion to Write Captions for Pictures (Two Templates in One Document)

II-L*The Power of Note-Taking–To Note-Taking Formats Distributed Over Two Worksheet Templates

II-M*Sentence with a Semicolon Stop

II-N*Sentence with a Colon Stop

II-O*Sentence Stem with a Coordinating Conjunction

II-P*Sentence Stem with an Elision for Parentheses

II-Q*Sentence Stem with Like or As to Produce an Analogy or a Simile

II-R*Partial Sentence with the Conjunctions Except, But, and Although to Join Contrary or Contradictory Pieces of Information

II-S*Which One Doesn’t Belong? Eliminating the Lease Relevant Sentence

II-T*Summary Sentence Worksheet

II-U*Select Appropriate Details from the List to Support Each Topic Sentence

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.