After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

Get to know Arlen in this reading comprehension worksheet,

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Kids practice articulating reasons that support opinions in this writing worksheet.

Mix fun with zen in this haiku activity! Students will practice writing about everyday objects in the style of haiku.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Can a cow be crabby, cute and clever? It can in this story! With this colorful worksheet your third grader will practice her writing skills using alliteration.

Write a summer-themed dialogue for this mother and son, then color in the pictures.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Help your students get to know a common prefix with this great graphic organizer.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying root words in context.

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

Your students will read a story about an unusual Thanksgiving Day and retell it from another character’s point of view.

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and pick out the highs and lows of the year. We all go through them, and what is important is that we learn from them.

Here's a fun challenge for any kid who loves word puzzles! Try unscrambling all 10 of these party-themed words.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool seal facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Use this graphic organizer to help kids differentiate between fact or opinion.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

Have fun with grammar and decode these scrambled adjectives, all starting with the letter A! This is a great way to work vocabulary and spelling skills.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.