English Language Arts Exercises : Page 4

By fifth grade, students are starting to use all of the parts of speech in their writing. Make sure they do so correctly with these exercises that solidify the place of these words in sentences.

Show students how verbs can be used to add more character to a statement using descriptive verbs.

Creating compound sentences can be confusing for fourth graders to learn, but this lesson can be made easy with interactive exercises and helpful hints found here.

Add more adjectives to the list of words your students are familiar with by assigning this simple exercise.

Allow your students to practice individually with these exercises that test them on their knowledge of plural possessive nouns. Helpful hints encourage your students to think through problems in order to solidify the lesson.

Help develop the fluency of your student's writing with these exercises that help them understand the importance of matching object and subject pronouns with their antecedent.

Help your students' storytelling abilities with these exercises that improve their knowledge of transition words and have them use context clues to answer questions.

Understanding coordinating and subordinating conjunctions is made much easier by this exercise filled with opportunities for practice.

Use this exercise to give your struggling student additional practice in recognizing when to capitalize the names of people, places, and things.

With the ability to use verbs in the future tense, students will better be able to describe their ambitions.

Set students up for alphabetizing practice with this easy to follow exercise that will expand their vocabulary at the same time.

Help your fifth grader describe the relationship between two thoughts by using the proper conjunctions. These exercises will help your student solidify concepts and practice individually.

Students will understand how to utilize suffixes to modify verb-noun pairs into adjective-adverb pairs with this helpful exercise.

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!

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

Solidify previous lessons with these exercises that review simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students will pick the correct form of a sentence from multiple choices.

This is one of the best exercises on comparative and superlative adjectives because it is clearer and easier to understand.

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.

Give your students more descriptive ability with an exercise that introduces new adjectives to their vocabulary.

Some words are remarkably similar, and this exercise will build students’ confidence in finding the difference between them.

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.

Students will be able to add a layer of complexity to their verbiage with this exercise that introduces helping verbs.

Help your third grader understand how to correctly identify and utilize demonstrative nouns with these exercises that have them use context clues to pick the best fit.

Students with a strong foundation in the present tense of verbs will be able to better understand other tenses.

Have your fifth grader learn when a clause is an interrupter with this fun and interactive activity that tests them on their knowledge of clauses rather than that of punctuation.

Make your fifth grader a master of sentence fragments with these exercises that have them identify incomplete sentences and improve their writing.

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.

Commas serve so many uses in our written language, and learning their vast possibilities helps fifth graders in their essay writing and beyond. Punctuating direct addresses can be tricky, but your fifth grader can get the help they need with these exercises.

Conjunctions are important for linking two ideas in a cohesive and fluid way. Give your fourth grader the skills they need to correctly use conjunctions with these exercises.