Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Kids revise run-on sentences with this worksheet.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

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

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

In this thoughtful opinion-writing worksheet, children will describe the season they like best, and why.

Separate, cut, glue, repeat! Give your students practice with separating words into syllables and then determining if they are open or closed syllables.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying the verb that agrees with the subject, then complete the sentences.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

This analogies worksheet helps children compare two unlike things. Try our analogies worksheet with your third grader to strengthen reading and writing skills.

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Children build their understanding of synonyms in this SEL-meets-vocabulary worksheet.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Linking and helping verbs may not be the most exciting or understood verbs — but they are still important! Learn and practice these parts of speech with this interactive activity.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.