Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

What do blueberries, firefighters, and birthdays all have in common? They’re all compound words, of course!

Create catch-all categories in this creative crossword!

Take notes of student peer conversations all in one document!

Try a crossword puzzle where all the answers are opposites of their clues!

Abbreviations are seen all around us, especially when referencing all kinds of measurements! This worksheet is a fun way to help your fourth graders learn to identify and abbreviate common measurement words, such as ounce or centimeter.

Before your child gets started writing research reports, help them learn that not all sources are created equal.

Kids who love space can learn all about the heroic Sally Ride, the first American woman to venture into space.

Learn all about superlatives -- words like good, best, yummy and yummiest -- that work great at comparing three or more things.

Get into grammar with a worksheet all about antonyms, or opposites! Your child will have to figure out which of these items are opposites.

Learn all about root words and prefixes, then try your hand at defining them, in this quick and easy practice activity about words with prefixes.

Your third grader will have fun figuring out clues with this colorful crossword puzzle all about Christmas! She'll even sneak in some handwriting practice too.

"Casey at the Bat" is a poem written by Ernest Thayer in 1888. Children will read this poem all the way through, then go back and answer the questions for each stanza.

Children will practice spotting root words — and words with root words — as they complete a word search puzzle.

Take notes on peer conversations as students explain points that support their answers.

Your students will break down a complicated sentence and practice rewording new vocabulary in this worksheet.

Compound your knowledge of compound words with this engaging worksheet!

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

Victory will be sweet when your second and third graders make it to the end of this fun, compound word maze!

Children will read a relatable story about a disappearing word, then practice sleuthing out the meanings of a few words on their own.