Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

Give your students a little extra practice with basic capitalization and punctuation.

Children will learn how and when to use quotation marks in dialogue and titles, then practice what they have learned.

Using the brothers from Ender's Game, our writing worksheet gives your child the opportunity to examine any rivalries between him and his siblings or friends.

The princess and her royal robot are taking a stroll in the big city today! Use your imagination to explain what's happening in this wacky picture.

Children learn editor's marks for a variety of grammar, formatting, spelling, and punctuation errors, then practice using them to read and edit a short paragraph.

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

Learn about a few common insects and arachnids as you color them in!

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Dialogue.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

Here's a quick overview of drought and flooding to spark thoughts or conversation with your kids about water.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Your young poet can review the important concepts of rhyme and rhythm by completing some practice exercises based on this poem.

How would the story of Jack and the Beanstalk go if it were told from the point of view of the giant?

Challenge your students to refine their thinking and explanations!

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

Does your 3rd grader have a case of writer's block? Hand him this creative writing worksheet featuring a knight and a dragon doing battle.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!