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Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

This worksheet template can be used to introduce students to new vocabulary words.

This lovely how-to worksheet will teach your child how to write a formal letter and give him a sweet note to give to Mom on Mother's Day.

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

Ready, set, spell! Use this worksheet to gauge your students’ familiarity with common second grade spelling patterns.

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Who doesn't love a good checklist? This handy worksheet can help budding letter writers make sure they include all the parts of a friendly letter.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool crab facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

This fun two-page worksheet supports students as they learn to use commas correctly in written correspondence.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

In this inventive worksheet, children practice writing from the perspective of everyday items.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Make a hand-crafted Father's Day gift -- and work on writing at the same time -- with this retro-inspired Father's Day card.

Ease your child into letter-writing with this fun practice worksheet framed as a Mother's Day card.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.