Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Help your young students learn the importance of transition words in this fun activity. By filling in the missing words, students discover how transition words help structure procedural writing.

As students learn to read independently, they’ll undoubtedly run into words they have trouble decoding. This worksheet helps students to reflect on the tricky words they run into and how they can decode them.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

As students read independently, they’ll run into words they have trouble decoding. Have your kids cut out these fun “tricky word” bookmarks to help them to recognize and record these words so that they can practice decoding them!

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Multiple-Meaning Words.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

Help students turn instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a cohesive piece of procedural writing. Using transition words is the key to successful how-to writing!

Language is fascinating and confusing! Learn some words in other languages that don't translate to English with this great linguistics worksheet.

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

The Three Little Pigs has story words unique to it, can you guess which those are? Help your child improve their vocabulary with this matching game.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Kids love nonsense, in case you haven't already noticed, and this wacky worksheet will work your wonderful wordsmith into a nonsense whirlwind.