Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

What are they saying? Write the dialogue for the scientist and robot!

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

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

History buffs and fiction lovers alike will enjoy learning about legendary writer Mark Twain with this Wild West worksheet!

What is a comma splice, and how do you fix it? Find out with this grammar worksheet, all about commas and conjunctions!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Children are guided through the process of writing clear, well supported arguments with this writing template.

Introduce your students to argument writing with this high-interest prompt about homework!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

In this writing exercise, children write a descriptive paragraph or two about the colors that surround them in autumn.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

It's ninjas vs zombies! Who will win? Flex your imagination to create a funny or crazy story to answer this writing prompt.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Assess your students’ knowledge of common synonyms and antonyms.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Children build their vocabulary in this word meaning and spelling worksheet by learning 10 new vocabulary words, along with their definitions, then writing them on the spaces provided.

Zombies always have such a bad rep. Imagine a day in the life from the point of view of a zombie kid!

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

In this exercise, students will use critical thinking to identify the common word part in a series of words and, using their knowledge of vocabulary, deduce the meaning of the word part.

Young writers take on the perspective of a turkey in this creative writing exercise.

In this thoughtful culture and writing activity, children will read about each of the tenets of Kwanzaa, then reflect on what these mean to them.