Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Discover the history of the Seminole tribe with this worksheet! This tribe, originally from Florida, has a rich culture.

Cursive X marks the spot in this cursive X worksheet. Write your way to a perfect cursive X in this cursive X worksheet.

Use this grammar exercise to practice using the comparative form of adjectives in sentences.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

If students need a little extra practice sorting out the context of sensory words, this worksheet will help!

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

In this worksheet, children explore what it means to be aware of their emotions, drawing inspiration from the turtle.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.

In this worksheet, learners will read eight sentences, then add descriptive adjectives to each of the underlined nouns.

Practice sentence writing with these prompts, perfect for struggling writers.

Children tap into their natural abilities in this worksheet that invites them to make a persuasive written argument!

Trace your way to beautiful cursive with this cursive W worksheet. Kids trace the letters and then write their own.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids choose an adjective and a noun to form a subject, then put it with a predicate to make a sentence.

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language ski

Use this resource to assess your students’ skills when it comes to responding to narrative prompts.

Star soccer players will love solving this sporty word scramble! Review some soccer words as you hone spelling and vocabulary.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

On this third grade reading and writing worksheet, kids complete each sentence by writing in the missing quotation marks.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

Your students will enjoy this kinesthetic activity as they review the grammar concept of singular and plural possessive nouns.