Teach your third graders how to write about a sequence of events with these exercises that have them use key words to describe the passage of time.

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.

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.

Students will understand how to identify and use metaphors after they work through this exercise.

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

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

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

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

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

Teach your students the difference between closers and multi-clause sentences with these exercises that have them practice their placement of punctuation marks in both cases.

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.

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.

After students complete this simple exercise they will better understand how to put compound words together.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

English is full of exceptions, and this exercise gives students an introduction to some of the many irregular verbs.

Encourage students to play the opposite game in this engaging exercise involving synonyms and antonyms.

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

Abbreviating customary and metric units of measure correctly will come naturally to your students after they work through this exercise.

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