Did you know there were really hot lava monsters in Chilean folklore? Read a bit about the legendary cherufe.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Encourage your fourth grader to know her state capitals with this worksheet, featuring the least populated capital in the country: Montpelier, Vermont.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

Encourage your little writer to exercise his creativity and write a story about this wacky scene.

Get your grammar student up to par on his parts of speech! With this practice sheet he'll practice identifying and using adverbs.

A.J. and C.K. are at it again! If your child is into comics or graphic novels, they're sure to love this do-it-yourself comic adventure.

Ease your young student into verbs with this worksheet full of verbs that start with E. There are short verb exercises, plus a fun letter maze at the end.

While not many verbs start with the letter X, there are plenty that start with the 'X' sound, and they're just waiting to be explored by your child!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

History buffs and fiction lovers alike will enjoy learning about legendary writer Mark Twain with this Wild West worksheet!

This skydiver is in for a surprise! What will happen next? Your little writer will use his imagination to write a story that explains this wacky picture.

Have you ever heard of a half-horse, half-fish? In old Mediterranean folklore these mythical beasts are quite common!

By describing pictures, young writers will learn to visualize verbs as "action words" that signify an action or a state of being.

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.

Looks like Santa Claus is in trouble! It's up to your creative writer to unravel the mystery behind this mysterious letter.

Hunt for the right outfit with this puzzling word search full of clothing words! This worksheet is a fun way to practice spelling with your child.

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Gobble, gobble! With this resource, your students will identify the adverbs that describe the perfect Thanksgiving meal.

Kids will flex their vocabulary muscles to practice using certain nouns as verbs. How do meanings differ when some words are used as different parts of speech

What if Dorothy from the "Wizard of Oz" had tea with the Mad Hatter? Make writing practice creative and fun for your child with a coloring page story starter!

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your readers. Students review the book they're reading and keep track of new words as they go.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.

Help your kid learn about "then" versus "than" before putting his new knowledge to the test with eight practice problems.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Your fourth grader can learn the capital of New Hampshire and practice her cursive handwriting skills all at once with this worksheet.