In nonfiction, bolding and underlining are frequently used to help words stand out. In fiction, authors can use ALL CAPS to add emphasis to a character’s voice.

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

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.

Share all about yourself with this getting-to-know-you writing activity!

Exercise your beginning writer's creativity and sentence-building skills with this fun family project, all about mom!

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Get ready for a ghostly reading activity! Here's a Halloween sheet that will teach your child all about ghosts and the history behind these spooks.

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

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Learners will use their compound word know-how and creativity to create compound words and use them in a sentence.

This Valentine's Day words worksheet gets your child familiar with love-themed idioms and phrases. Learn some cool Valentine's Day words and idioms.

Practice bringing sensory words to life!

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Who, what, where, why, when: These are five very important words in our language. Use this worksheet to practice them!

Help your learner get to know their family members with a fun interview and creative writing exercise, all about Grandma!

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Kids will get to explore adjectives and descriptive words in this worksheet where three time travelers visit the future and try to describe the things they see.

Children will practice writing irregularly spelled words in this simple writing worksheet.

This multiple meaning words worksheet uses context clues to help kids make sense of homonyms, or words with multiple meanings.

Give your students practice writing with detail and using vivid words.

Expose your students to new vocabulary and root words with this rockin’ exercise!

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying root words in context. T

Set your sights on this spelling worksheet about words with '-ight' as the suffix, and you just might start to get it right.

Compound your knowledge of compound words with this engaging worksheet!