Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will practice identifying conjunctions and correctly placing punctuation in each of five sentences.

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Find out what happens next with page 5 of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Give your child some practice with spelling. Search the word puzzles for five-letter words. Challenge him to build his vocabulary as he has some fun.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Learning to use sensory words effectively is such an important skill for a budding writer. n this activity, students will use sensory adjectives from a word bank to breathe life into ordinary sentences.

Looking at prefixes, suffixes, and root words can help readers find meaning. Even young readers can start to build their vocabulary from prefixes and suffixes. In this activity, students will create words by combining prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

In this playful grammar worksheet, children are invited to think about how they would describe something that they can see.

In this practice worksheet, children develop their punctuation skills as they correct five sentences and rewrite five more.

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

An anagram is a word that can be rearranged to create other words. Make an anagram by using the same letters but in a different order!

Once you know your ABC's, move to the next step: alphabetizing words!

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Get to know the basic pronouns with this grammar sheet for beginners! Your little writer will practice replacing nouns with pronouns.

Beginning writers can get to know some common contractions with this practice worksheet, where they can break down and create contractions.

Improve vocabulary and writing style as you review parts of speech with your young writer! He'll practice identifying and using adverbs.

Does your kid know the difference between "toe" and "tow?" Learn about homophones, or two words that sound alike but have different meanings, in this worksheet.

Ready, set, action! Beginning readers will get some great practice identifying the action verbs in each of these sentences.

It's an antonym anthill! Get the ants into the anthill by connecting words with opposite meanings.

Master adjectives in this Thanksgiving-themed grammar worksheet!

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.