Use these icebreaker questions to help classmates make connections, remember names, and find new friends.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Whether it’s a poet, inventor, or famous scientist, this worksheet will help learners gather and organize important information.

Help students hone their punctuation skills with this camping-themed comma worksheet!

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Everyone loves a mystery! Give your budding writer a chance to create her own fictional story based on this picture writing prompt. What will happen next?

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Invite students to inventory their vocabulary knowledge with this adaptable graphic organizer!

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Children build their vocabulary in this word meaning and spelling worksheet by learning 10 new vocabulary words, along with their definitions, then writing them on the spaces provided.

In this worksheet, close readers use the subject to help identify the main idea of a text.

This cursive state capitals worksheet featuring Austin, Texas will challenge you child's handwriting and U.S. geography.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Hone writing skills by identifying opinion vs fact.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

This lunch time story is completely out of order! Can your child read each sentence and number them correctly so that the story makes sense?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.