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This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

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.

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Mini musicians, get ready for a jukebox adventure back in time! Visit the Library of Congress Jukebox website to hear 5 classic melodies by famous composers.

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

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

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.