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.

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

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

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

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

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

This worksheet asks students to find the transition words and to use them in their own sentences.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words "said," "sad," and "went.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

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

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Auggie from Wonder.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Welcome to the kitchen, chefs! Let’s see if you can whip up a tasty piece of writing that’s full of delicious verbs!

Use details and imagery to capture this long holiday in writing.

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Use this picture prompt to provoke creativity in student writing.