When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Locate and color the compound words to reveal a hidden picture.

Children build their vocabulary in this word meaning and spelling worksheet by learning 10 new vocabulary words, along with their definitions, then writing them on the spaces provided.

Give your kid practice with an essential second grade concept--homophones--with this pretty printable, full of fun illustrations.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Emotion Charades.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Words that Sound the Same.

Introduce your child to one charming character â Johnny Appleseed! Then, can you guess three of the apple names on the page?

Students practice using word patterns to complete analogies in this helpful grammar worksheet!

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Want to clear up compound words? Challenge your second grader to decode and add up these images to create brand new, compound words!

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Learn all about superlatives -- words like good, best, yummy and yummiest -- that work great at comparing three or more things.

Do some fun wordplay with this suffix worksheet. Kids will add a suffix to the end of three different words to show that they have a linguistic connection.

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

On this third grade reading worksheet, each crossword puzzle clue is a sentence with a highlighted word. Kids write the antonym of the word in the puzzle.

Wordsmiths will enjoy this word-building activity that focuses on suffixes. Challenge your child to find a common suffix between three words in this worksheet.

All of the words in this worksheet are antonym pairs. Practice reading your vocabulary words first, then cut out each word card and find its match.

Do your students understand which word to use in context? Check your students' abilities to understand and differentiate between homophones with this simple dictation exercise.

Learners visit "Syn City" in this playful word-meaning worksheet.

Your students will have a blast learning 18 new vocabulary words, which were selected from a list of challenging words that are commonly seen in 5th grade texts and basal readers.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Have your first graders conquered the compound word? It's time to find out! Use this quick reading assessment to evaluate your students’ abilities to read compound words, such as sunflower, bookcase, and cowboy.

Dig into your dictionary skills! Use this resource to guide students as they determine the right word to look up.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying root words in context. T

This worksheet will help children identify compound words, by asking them to color-code the words on the page.

Meet John Muir, the original environmentalist, in this nonfiction reading sheet.

In this worksheet, students will explain two ways in which high frequency words are used as multiple parts of speech. Words include swing, color, admit, and answer.

In this worksheet, learners will practice using context clues to find the meaning of eight compound words.