Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Start a word collection of your own with this helpful table.

Explore the meaning of Latin roots like "scribe" and "spect" with this matching activity! Build essential vocabulary skills with this simple one-page worksheet.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

In this creative vocabulary activity, your goal is to be “wrong” on purpose!

Help your students practice using root words, prefixes, and suffixes to change words and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

As suffix sleuths, your students will explore changes in words that include suffix additions. They will practice identifying the two similar words and explaining the different meanings of the words.

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

Use this matrix to help your students build words using prefixes, suffixes, and the root words PORT and STRUCT.

Challenge fourth and fifth graders' knowledge of homophones with this spelling worksheet!

Challenge your knowledge of spelling and homophones with this fun worksheet!

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

In this exercise, students will identify adjectives and adverbs as well as the nouns and verbs they describe.

Help your writer compose more complex sentences by using conjunctions.

Play with words in this cheerful spring activity!

Learn all about root words and prefixes, then try your hand at defining them, in this quick and easy practice activity about words with prefixes.

With this worksheet focused on prefixes, students will sort out similar words, deconstruct words to locate the prefixes, and find the meaning of each word.

How many words can you think of that mean "home"? Your fourth grader will learn 24 words that will add accuracy and intrigue to his writing.

Analyze words and build vocabulary with a Frayer model!

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

Kids find synonyms for target words in this vocabulary worksheet.

During this activity, students will match a multisyllabic word to one of five R-controlled vowel combinations.

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Assess kids' ability to define new words using context clues.

Deduce the definitions of tricky words in this engaging informational passage!

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

This cut-and-paste, categorizing activity helps students review root words!

Unscramble seasonal words in this worksheet for third, fourth, and fifth graders!

Kids use grade-level words in sentences with this vocabulary worksheet.