Take your fifth graders' story telling abilities to the next level with these exercises that have them put their knowledge of transition words to the test.

Help your fourth graders identify transition words with these exercises that test their factual knowledge of the subject and put their skills to use in writing.

Help inject personality into your students' written work with this exercise that helps them understand introductory phrases and how to incorporate them into their own writing correctly.

Jumpstart your students' love of introductory clauses with these exercises that not only teach them the correct format, but also show them how their writing can be enhanced!

Merging short sentences into fluid phrases is key in essay and report writing. Help your third grader master this skill early on with these exercises.

After students complete this simple and clear exercise from Education.com, they will know how to how to abbreviate correctly.

Looking forward, students will love being able to describe events they are anticipating after learning the future tense of verbs.

Even after students have learned phonics, there are plenty of irregular words this exercise can help them learn to spell.

Students will be able to explain a situation clearly after completing this educational exercise on how, when, and where adverbs.

Teach students to write using relative spaces with these exercises that use prepositions to describe one noun in relation to another.

Teach your third grader how to write two-thought sentences with these exercises that use conjunctions to merge shorter sentences into one.

After this exercise, students will be able to easily use suffixes to change an adjective into a noun.

Students will have better reading comprehension skills after completing this exercise that shows them how to pick out contextual clues.

Clear and concise language is crucial in written communication. Help your students understand how to make themselves understood when describing a place with these exercises.

Students will be masters of using suffixes to modify adjectives and adverbs after this exercise.

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.

Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.

Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.

Homophones can sometimes confuse younger students, but this exercise will teach them how to differentiate between similar words.

Teach your third grader about articles used in sentences and when to be specific, or less so, with these exercises that have them identify and practice individually.

Inject personality into your fourth grader's writing with interjections. These exercises give them the ability to practice and learn about interjections at their own speed.

Students will be able to read between the lines after studying this exercise on identifying contextual clues.

Your students will be masters of irregularly spelled words after completing this final exercise in the series.

Spelling will be a breeze for students after they complete their understanding of suffixes with this final exercise in the series.

After your students complete this exercise, they will feel confident in consulting reference materials to find answers on their own.

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.

Students will appreciate the ability to write some of their most commonly used words after working through this exercise on contractions.

After completing the following exercise, students will be able to answer basic questions about an event involving how, when, and where.

Along with understanding the root of words, this exercise will help students learn common suffixes tacked onto different words.

This Education.com exercise makes it clear to students how to break down compound and hyphenated words correctly.