One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Use this surprise party-themed worksheet to have fun with present participle practice! Students will start by filling in the blanks with verbs rewritten in present participle form, and they'll end up with a cute story about a surprise party.

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

Words that end with Y can be tricky, but that's no reason to cry! This fun worksheet combines reading and coloring to help your young students learn how a Y at the end of a word can make an I or an E sound.

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

Homonyms are words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have different meanings. Give your child some homonym practice with this fun activity in which they'll seek to match the correct word meanings to homonyms being used in context.

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language ski

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

Give kids a fun way to practice using parts of speech with this fill-in-the-blank story template! You and your students will be in a fit of giggles as you listen to each other read their completed zoo-inspired stories aloud!

Help your students master the ending Y sound with this fun practice worksheet. By sorting words into two columns, young readers learn that the final Y sound can make a long E sound, as in baby, or a long I sound, as in fly.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Get ready for a fun memory game! Students take one minute to look around the classroom before turning their eyes back to the paper to write down as many items as they can…without looking! This is a great way to engage students in writing independently.