Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

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

There’s an ocean of sensory details you can use in your writing!

Write concise, engaging sentences and eliminate repetitive words with this helpful handout!

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

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

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

This worksheet asks students to find the transition words and to use them in their own sentences.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

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

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Auggie from Wonder.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

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

Practice basic capitalization rules with this worksheet which asks: to capitalize or not capitalize?

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!

Spellers take their skills to the stratosphere with this fun practice worksheet.

Get creative with this charming poetry worksheet!

Young writers can elevate their writing through wise word choices!

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.

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.