Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Give your second graders some practice with long vowel word families and spelling patterns with this colorful activity! Students will identify long O words based on picture clues, then determine the spelling pattern of each word.

Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word containing suffixes and prefixes.

It’s more fun to revise with a partner! After writing personal narratives, have students share their writing with a partner. Partners should identify at least three parts in the narrative where three descriptive details could be added.

Abbreviations are seen all around us, especially when referencing all kinds of measurements! This worksheet is a fun way to help your fourth graders learn to identify and abbreviate common measurement words, such as ounce or centimeter.

Prepositions add valuable information to nonfiction texts by helping us understand where and when something happened. In this activity, students will seek to identify prepositions and use them to complete sentences with the help of a word bank.

This grammar and mechanics worksheet helps students understand the difference between abstract and concrete nouns.

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing

Practice identifying adjectives within the context of written sentences with this second-grade grammar worksheet!

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

Help your second grader get a grasp on nouns by finishing this story about a girl who loves baseball! She'll fill in the missing nouns in each sentence.

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

Learning pronouns is as easy as pie with this first- and second-grade grammar worksheet!

Celebrate the winter weather while you practice your pronouns!

Find each verb in this rollerskating-themed grammar worksheet!