Crossword puzzles help build brain power and bolster reasoning skills. Your child will find making their own crossword puzzle challenging, but so fun!

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

What's happening in this scene? It's up to your creative kid to fill the speech bubbles.

Fill in the speech and thought bubbles as a guy and girl talk on the phone.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

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!

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Young writers practice crafting thoughtful, compelling paragraphs with this persuasive writing worksheet.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

Students focus on word parts to identify patterns and build new words in this fourth-grade grammar worksheet!

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

This prewriting exercise introduces students to the strategy of creating a word bank while reviewing adverbs.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Choosing your or you're can be difficult for everyone. Your student can learn quickly while filling in the blanks of this story.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

This small-group exercise makes crafting compound sentences fun!

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

What if you could make up your own animal species? Your child will have fun as she uses her imagination to hone her writing skills.