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Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Practice Writing a Strong Lead: Literary Essay

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

This lesson will help your young writers develop a claim, or thesis, and construct an argument around it. You may have students complete the essay by continuing the process with the lesson Literary Argument Writing: Drafting Your Essay.




Literary Argument Writing: Defining Your Topic

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

On Demand Writing: Picture Prompt

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Literary Essay Graphic Organizer

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.

Persuasive Writing Assessment

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Different Ways to Start a Story

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Common Idioms

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

Literary Argument Writing: Supporting Your Claim

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

Christmas Gift Writing Prompt

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Find the Central Message: Literary Response

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Review parts of speech and sentence structure with a fun and creative writing exercise. Try writing a descriptive scene using no verbs!

Winter Writing: No Verbs

Your child will improve language arts skills while learning about life science in this workbook. It includes word searches, reading exercises, creative writing, spelling tests and other activities.

Read to Learn: Natural Science

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Language Frames: Compare & Contrast

This worksheet bundle rounds up some writing prompts for your child to explore different writing styles.

Writing Roundup

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay. 

Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

This language arts assessment will provide insight into your students' ability to write an animal report.

Writing Review Part 1: Informative Writing: Animal Frenzy!

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

Argument Writing: Pre-Writing Organizer

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

Writing Workshop: Everyday Writing

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Thinking About Characters: Literary Response

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

Dear Santa Writing Prompt

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Halloween Writing Prompts #2

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Letter Writing for Kids

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #2

Imagery is one of the most important tools in a narrative writer's arsenal. In this lesson, students will will learn to craft vivid scenes by selecting powerful verbs and adjectives, as well as to critique descriptive writing using the same criteria.

Using Adjectives and Verbs to Make Writing Come to Life

Practice Using Transitions #1

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