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

What Is Figurative Language?

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

Helpful Hyperboles

Keep creativity alive this winter break with a creative writing prompt, inspired by the spirit of Christmas giving!

Christmas Creative Writing

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

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

Creative Writing: Living Underwater

How would our lives be different if we were aquatic creatures living underwater? Have your kid flex his creativity with this fun writing prompt.

Living Underwater

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

Halloween Writing Prompt

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

Sci Fi Writing Prompt: End of the World

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

Dear Santa Writing Prompt

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

Pet Dragon

Students become word artists as they use ordinary pictures to practice creating detailed descriptions. This technique helps your class learn how to paint a picture with words.

Paint a Word Picture

Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.

Marvelous Metaphors

So your students are going to write a narrative? Use these prewriting exercises to help them choose an idea and plan out their story.  

Narrative Prewriting Activities

You decide what's happening on the page by drawing and writing it in!

What's the Painting?

Practice creative writing, storytelling, and dialogue skills as you create a dialogue in this comics activity.

Summer Comics (Part One)

Learn how to write dialogue with this writing activity that, in the long run, will help you better understand literature.

How to Write Dialogue

Enhance your writing by revising sentences in this third- and fourth-grade grammar worksheet!

Better Together: Combining Sentences #3

There is great wonder in building things and taking them apart. Use this grammar lesson with your students to teach them how to construct and deconstruct contractions while correctly using an apostrophe.

Construct and Deconstruct Contractions

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

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

Practice Using Transitions #1


Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

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.

Working with Analogies

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

How to Write Dialogue Between Characters

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

Paragraphs That POP!

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 1

What would happen if Megalodon and the Loch Ness Monster went head-to-head? Your budding writer can have fun narrating this epic battle!

Loch Ness Monster vs Megalodon

What is a robot? What can robots do? Computer programmers tell robots what to do by creating a sequence of commands. In this lesson, students work in pairs to program a robot to act out the story from the mini story book *My Friend.*


My Robot Friend

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

Interesting Introductions

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