With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of Speech that Describe.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Evidence.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Using the brothers from Ender's Game, our writing worksheet gives your child the opportunity to examine any rivalries between him and his siblings or friends.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

In nonfiction, bolding and underlining are frequently used to help words stand out. In fiction, authors can use ALL CAPS to add emphasis to a character’s voice.

This worksheet gives fifth graders targeted practice with using the prefixes "de," "circum," "trans," "sub," "tri," and "in."

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Problem and Solution Practice.

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

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring Character Motivation.

About 14 million people visit the historic city of Berlin each year. Give your students the opportunity to study and share historic facts and places in Germany's capital with this brochure exercise.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

What ten essentials would you pack in case of an emergency? Help kids think about disaster preparedness from zombie apocalypse point of view!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Quotes with Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences with Sentence Stems.

Use this survey to help students think about their opinions and reasoning for eight high-interest prompts.