Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.

Invite students to practice their argumentative writing skills with this leap year-inspired writing prompt!

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Students read background information about January as National Hobby Month and then respond to reflective questions.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

This worksheet, which reads like riddles, will expose your learners to important abolitionists in the African American community.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Match these famous movie quotes with their films! Some of these famous movie quotes from classics, and others are from new favorites for a fun challenge.

It's ninjas vs zombies! Who will win? Flex your imagination to create a funny or crazy story to answer this writing prompt.

Instead of reading the story and then reviewing it, kids have to put this mixed-up story back together in order to understand what's going on.

This worksheet is a review of dialogue punctuation. Add quotation marks and commas where they are missing in the sentences about ice cream sundaes.

Get to know more about your family's meaningful traditions with this fun interview activity.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

Show students how vivid a well-written description can be and then let them create imagery of their own.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

Young writers will reflect on what the holiday season means to them with this seasonal writing prompt.

Help students learn how to recognize the beats in a poem with this worksheet.

Use this haiku worksheet to add a written element to any afternoon outing in nature.

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.