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.

Have your students practice their sentence combining skills with these exercises that give them visuals and helpful hints.

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.

Students will learn how to compare two objects by practicing this short exercise on comparatives.

Give students practice with all of the parts that make up complete sentences in this exercise.

Have your fifth graders master their written phrasing with these exercises that ask them to identify punctuation placement and closer phrases.

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.

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.

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.

From common phrases to place names, this exercise will show students how to abbreviate with ease.

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.

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.

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!

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.

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

Give students a helping hand with this exercise that explains and gives examples of helping verbs.

With the basics established, students will enjoy making use of the knowledge of common prefixes shared in this exercise.

For additional practice, have students complete this exercise that will give them mastery over compound and hyphenated words.

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.

Using descriptive verbs will add more color to any comment, and this exercise shows students how to incorporate them.

The list goes on, and with so many irregular verbs, this helpful exercise brings a few more to your students’ attention.

This exercise will help students expand their vocabulary by learning how to read multi syllable words.

It will be much easier for students to learn how to spell after completing this exercise that gives them familiarity with common suffixes.

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

English is a language full of exceptions to rules, and this exercise will enhance students’ understanding of irregularly spelled words.

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

Showing students how to work with coordinating and subordinating conjunctions has never been easier thanks to this exercise.

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

The English language can be confusing, but will be a lot clearer to students who complete this exercise clarifying the difference between common homophones and homographs.

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.