Mountain Hiking Contrasts

This worksheet supports students in Grades 5, 6, and 7 as they strengthen paragraph editing skills, narrative clarity, and accurate use of contrast phrases. Learners read a full paragraph about a mountain hiking experience that contains missing and incorrect uses of despite and in spite of. They then rewrite the entire passage, correcting errors and ensuring that each concessive phrase clearly and logically expresses contrast.

Skills Reinforced

• Paragraph Editing (Grades 5-7): Revise an extended passage to improve grammar, clarity, and overall coherence.
• Correcting Contrast Phrases: Use despite and in spite of accurately to show concession within narrative writing.
• Narrative Grammar Application: Apply grammar rules meaningfully within a story rather than in isolated sentences.
• Revising for Clarity: Improve flow and understanding by correcting and refining sentence structure.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary and middle school ELA standards.
• Paragraph-Level Practice: Helps students see how grammar choices affect an entire piece of writing.
• Context-Rich Editing Task: Requires careful reading and understanding of logical relationships between ideas.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for grammar lessons, writing workshops, assessments, or small-group instruction.
• Low-Prep Printable: Ready to use in both classroom and homeschool settings.

This printable worksheet helps students deepen their understanding of concessive language while strengthening editing and revision skills. By rewriting a full paragraph using despite and in spite of correctly, learners build confidence in grammar accuracy, narrative flow, and clear expression. Whether used in a classroom language arts unit or a homeschool lesson, this resource supports thoughtful revision, logical contrast, and polished writing.

This worksheet is part of our despite vs. in spite of worksheets collection.