Develop your child's verb vocabulary with this word study worksheet. Students will brainstorm verbs that match with given nouns, then use the pair of words in a sentence.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions.

Help your child get a grasp on the difference between which and that, and will help him tame this common grammar mix-up!

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

Imagine you are a reporter in the midst of a zombie outbreak! Bring some spookiness to your child's daily writing journal with this fun prompt.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Young readers will love biting into this passage's cool piranha facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Help students create their own division word problems!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personification Practice.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

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

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Give your students the questions and organizer to evaluate creative work. Use this worksheet to guide student evaluations of their partner’s creative products.

Review the parts of speech with this sentence diagramming worksheet! Young writers will gain a better understanding of sentence structure.

Pick up some fun movie trivia and learn about how special sound effects are made on this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this organizer to help students track examples of hyperbole.

Print out this sheet to help your child understand the difference between further and farther, two of the trickiest words in the English language!

Read the eyewitness accounts of sightings at Russell Hotel, then do some comparing and contrasting using the Venn diagram at the bottom.

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Learn about movie sound effects with this reading and writing worksheet. Your young movie fan will enjoy learning about the job of sound designers.