When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Start a word collection of your own with this helpful table.

This persuasive writing prompt asks kids to write a position statement about whether students should or should not have homework over summer vacation.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

Help your students' confidence in writing persuasive essays grow with this tree graphic organizer. Using this worksheet, students will make connections between opinion, reasons, and examples in their persuasive writing.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fractional Tape Diagram Descriptions.

Homophones are words that sound alike, but are very different in many ways! Help your child get familiar with some common homophones.

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

All of these awesome words begin with "A" and describe astounding nouns! Help your fourth grader recognize adjectives that start with the letter "A".

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Make a hand-crafted Father's Day gift -- and work on writing at the same time -- with this retro-inspired Father's Day card.

Get ready to ring in the New Year with a fun writing prompt, all about New Year's resolutions. This is a good way to build paragraph-writing skills.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Introduce your child to a few state capitals with a word search puzzle! Use spelling and logic skills to find each capital.

Get more practice identifying and using abstract nouns in sentences with this open-ended grammar worksheet!

Here's a fun way for your third grader to learn about antonyms. March the ants into the anthill by matching the opposite words.

Stay in the spirit of Christmas while reviewing parts of speech! These sentences are full of nouns and adjectives; can your child identify which is which?

By the time your fourth grader is through with this worksheet, she'll know the capital of Kentucky (Frankfort) and have practiced her cursive.

Read more about the Florida Skunk Ape and one of the most famous encounter stories. Then, use your imagination to write a letter about the encounter.

Support critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the final chapters of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Fall into fun vocabulary practice with this fantastic worksheet on verbs that start with F!

The elegant and simply style of renga is the perfect way to introduce your child to the rhythm and style of poetry.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.