Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

This fun worksheet will expose your learners to important musicians in the African American community.

Does your kid think he knows how to write a haiku? How about draw one? Let him try it out with this haiku worksheet. Inspiration is a blank canvas!

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Introduce young historians to Amelia Bloomer, an influential 19th century women's rights activist, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Show your fifth-grader it's possible to make your own comic rather than just read them. He'll work on creative writing while he's at it!

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

A diamante poem is a diamond shaped poem. Show your students an example of this type of poem and invite them write their own diamantes!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Take notes on peer conversations as students explain points that support their answers.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of Speech that Describe.

Get straight to the point with this worksheet about fencing, one of the lesser-known Olympic sports.

In this spooky-slash-silly writing prompt, kids can write about what kind of music, if any, might repel a zombie.

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Get students' wheels turning and stomachs churning with this reflective writing prompt!

Early in the American Revolution, the Patriots captured Fort Ticonderoga. Your young historian will learn the importance of this fort in this worksheet.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!