Create your own crazy story with this fill-in-the-blank story! Your budding writer will practice parts of speech as he fills in missing parts of the story.
Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships between ideas.
Too or to? Help kids get a grasp on homophones with this sentence-building game, in which they complete sentences with homophones that make the most sense.
This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.
Knowing your parts of speech is an important part of learning good writing skills. Learn the ins and outs of words with this packet that covers the eight different parts of speech.
Writing reports and other kinds of informational pieces is a skill unto itself. It requires an understanding of organizing and sequencing thoughts, tying them together in a way that makes sense to the reader and sometimes a bit of research. It is recommended that students participate in writing their own informational essay on a topic of their choice. This will allow them to apply all that they are learning through the exercises in this unit.
Not knowing a word’s meaning is OK -- in fact, it’s totally human. Luckily, there are lots of ways to figure out word meaning without looking it up. Try looking at the words around it in the sentence, or breaking it down into root words. Learn these techniques and more with our resources for figuring out word meaning. We’ve got everything from regular old worksheets to online quizzes.