This exercise provides ground rules for forming plurals, as well as common irregular words students should learn.

Students will understand just where their vocabulary words come from with this root words exercise.

This Education.com exercise makes it clear to students how to break down compound and hyphenated words correctly.

For additional practice, have students complete this exercise that will give them mastery over compound and hyphenated words.

Your students will be masters of irregularly spelled words after completing this final exercise in the series.

English is a language full of exceptions to rules, and this exercise will enhance students’ understanding of irregularly spelled words.

Students who complete this exercise will have no problem spelling tricky multi-syllable words.

Help your fourth graders identify transition words with these exercises that test their factual knowledge of the subject and put their skills to use in writing.

Take your fifth graders' story telling abilities to the next level with these exercises that have them put their knowledge of transition words to the test.

Have your fifth grader use sentence details and clues to determine the best transition word to link two sentences.

Connecting sentences and ideas is key in essay and report writing, and these exercises will help your fourth grader get ahead of the curve.

Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Teach students how to change the meaning of words by adding suffixes with this simple exercise.

This exercise will help students expand their vocabulary by learning how to read multi syllable words.

This exercise will teach students learn how to pronounce the unique sounds of words containing double syllables.

Add more adjectives to the list of words your students are familiar with by assigning this simple exercise.

Some words are remarkably similar, and this exercise will build students’ confidence in finding the difference between them.

Show students why they need to give special attention to the syllable ‘y’ found at the end of many words.

In this final exercise in the series, students will become adept at applying their knowledge of prefixes to forming new words and expanding their vocabulary.

Expertly split syllables with this phonics activity! A strong understanding of syllabication patterns can improve students’ ability to break apart and decode unfamiliar words. 

By fifth grade, students are starting to use all of the parts of speech in their writing. Make sure they do so correctly with these exercises that solidify the place of these words in sentences.