2nd - 5th Grade English Language Arts Exercises : Page 4

Rather than stay confined to a handful of adjectives, students who complete this exercise will have a host of descriptors to choose from.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Use this exercise to show students how suffixes can be used to change adjectives and adverbs.

Don't make things tense in your classroom when learning the difference between present and past tense verbs. These exercises allow your students to practice matching subjects and verbs independently.

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

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

Solidify your third graders' knowledge of the parts of speech with these exercises that quiz them on what they know and offer hints when necessary.

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.

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

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

This exercise will show students the difference between some of the most common homophones and homographs.

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

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.

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

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.

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.

For students still learning grammar, this exercise will be instrumental in teaching them how to use suffixes to change verbs into nouns.

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

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

Now that students understand the difference between a synonym and an antonym, have them solidify that knowledge with practice.

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

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

There are so many irregular verbs in the English language that students will need to complete several exercises before growing familiar with them all.

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.

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