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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

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

Common Idioms

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

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

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

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

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

Practice Using Transitions #2

Practice Using Transitions #1

Give your class the "write" tools they need to become excellent authors. In this literary lesson, students use their knowledge of author's purpose to successfully write pieces that persuade, inform, and entertain.

Author's Purpose: Easy as PIE

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

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

The Place Value Game

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

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.

Tuning My Writing Voice

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

Learn Chinese: Basic Phrases Match

This book of creative writing prompts will nudge reluctant writers towards a love of language with imaginative activities that take them through space, under the sea and into distant lands.

Story Starters

Learners practice editing dialogue for punctuation in this appealing grammar worksheet.

Using Punctuation in Dialogue

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Using Dialogue to Pace Your Piece

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

How to Begin a Story

Writing reports and other kinds of informational pieces is a skill unto itself. It requires an understanding of organizing and sequencing thoughts, tying them together in a way that makes sense to the reader and sometimes a bit of research. It is recommended that students participate in writing their own informational essay on a topic of their choice. This will allow them to apply all that they are learning through the exercises in this unit.

Informational Text 3

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

Starting a Story

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 1

Sentence Makeover Part 2

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Linking Up Ideas

In this grammar and mechanics worksheet, children will review guidelines for using quotation marks, along with examples.

Quotation Mark Rules

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

What Is an Analogy?

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