These articles, short stories, fairy tales and fables teach kids about a wide range of subjects so your child can learn more about history and science while improving literacy and vocabulary skills.
Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.
This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.
Explore the parts of a plant and the stages of life it goes through. Then try your hand at germinating seeds as you introduce your little bud to important plant processes like photosynthesis.
Week 3 of this Fourth Grade Fall Review Packet explores topics in reading, writing, math, social studies, and science for a well-rounded review of third grade curriculum.
Writing doesn't have to be a bore! Inspire reluctant writers to use their imaginations for storytelling. Colorful pictures can spark creativity in kids and help them strengthen descriptive writing.
Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.
Find your inner musician with this fun-filled workbook all about music. Read about the history of different music genres, and learn to read music on the piano and guitar too!
Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month's worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!
Your child will improve language arts skills while learning about life science in this workbook. It includes word searches, reading exercises, creative writing, spelling tests and other activities.
Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.
Get your second grader's creativity flowing with this workbook, boasting all of the right stuff he needs to create events in a sequence, and eventually even pen his own prompts!
This workbook explores the myths, science, and history of our efforts to understand the skies with light reading. Introduce kids to gravity, moon phases and stars with basic activities and stories.
Get your fifth grader to love writing with these creative writing prompts. Students will practice building stories, and can find inspiration from great authors such as Jack London or Mark Twain.
Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.
Entice young writers to dabble in both formal, research-based writing as well as creative writing. These open-ended exercises help kids write dialogue and exposition while crafting essays or stories.
POW! Knock writing practice out cold with this super series of creative writing sheets. Your young superhero can flex his imagination by drafting his own comic strips.
Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.
Use this series to help your child explore the passage of time, from days to years. Kids will get to map their lives on a timeline as they learn about concepts of past, present and future.
Figurative language is a great way to flex both a writer and a reader’s imagination: it’s any kind of writing that isn’t literal, like a simile, metaphor, or personification. Learn about figurative language and other literary devices with our worksheets, activities, games and more. Once you start using figurative language and literary devices, your writing will sing!
