Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Can your little writer tell which sentence will make this thought complete? Help her practice using inference and reading for context clues.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

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

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!

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

How do these sentences fit together? Learn a bit about story context and comprehension with this fun matching activity.

How does this paragraph start? Learn to read for context clues and use inference with this worksheet on topic sentences!

Discover the meaning and celebration of Kwanzaa with this research worksheet designed for fourth through eighth graders!

These groups of sentences are missing a supporting sentence! Help your child learn to read for context clues with this matching activity.

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

Watch out for this big, bad Bushido! Bushido is a Japanese word meaning "way of the warrior." It's up to your child to write the story of this super samurai.

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."

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

Children reflect on the meaning of American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy in this thoughtful writing practice and drawing worksheet.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Learners practice editing dialogue for punctuation in this appealing grammar worksheet.