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Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

Beware of walking under ladders! Find out the origins of this superstition and why people avoid walking under ladders.

Is spilling salt really bad luck? Read about the origins of this food superstition; it may not be as odd as you think!

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Did you ever get bad luck from seeing a black cat cross your path? Maybe the superstition is not as scary as you thought!

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.

Have you ever opened an umbrella indoors? Some people think that action causes bad luck! Read all about how this superstition came to be.

Do you avoid stepping on cracks in the road? Have some fun exploring a common childhood superstition!

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Have you ever knocked on wood to counter-jinx yourself? Now it's time to find out the truth behind this well-known superstition!

How do you know if you're living in a haunted house? Doors opening by themselves? Come up with your own spooky signals that the ghosts are near!

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

Djinn are evil genies who live in a parallel world. Tell your 4th grader to write about his favorite superhero defeating this djinn.

Nobody knows much about the Secretive Celestial. It's up to your young author to decide who this superhero is. Let the imagination run wild.