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

Expose your students to new vocabulary and root words with this rockin’ exercise!

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Kids will get to explore adjectives and descriptive words in this worksheet where three time travelers visit the future and try to describe the things they see.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying root words in context. T

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

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

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

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

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

Differentiate between similar words with this appealing worksheet!

As students read nonfiction books, have them think which important words teach about the main topic. At the end of this activity, students will have made a web of vocabulary words!

Use these picture cards to introduce your students to 16 common theme words.

Practice differentiating between similar words in this engaging worksheet!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

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

In this worksheet, students will explain two ways in which high frequency words are used as multiple parts of speech. Words include swing, color, admit, and answer.

This worksheet encourages students to work together to think of as many examples of common root words as they can.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying root words in context.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying the root words "son" and "sect" in context.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions.

During this fun activity, students practice creating and reading multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels.

Use this multiple-meaning words worksheet to support middle school students as they explore a word with more than one meaning. 

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.