Deduce the definitions of tricky words in this engaging informational passage!

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

This worksheet is a quick-reference tool of space vocabulary for kids, with an exercise to use the words properly in provided sentences.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Let's make some nonsense! Using "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, a poem famous for its otherworldly wacky words, your child makes his own nonsense.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

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.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.