Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.

This exercise will teach students how to use common suffixes to change a verb’s tense.

Teach students how to change the meaning of words by adding suffixes with this simple exercise.

Test your students with these exercises that have them identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. Helpful hints give your students all the information they need to work through the problems on their own.

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.

Rather than stay confined to a handful of adjectives, students who complete this exercise will have a host of descriptors to choose from.

Help your fifth grader describe the relationship between two thoughts by using the proper conjunctions. These exercises will help your student solidify concepts and practice individually.

Using descriptive verbs will add more color to any comment, and this exercise shows students how to incorporate them.

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.

Add more adjectives to the list of words your students are familiar with by assigning this simple exercise.

Students will understand how to utilize suffixes to modify verb-noun pairs into adjective-adverb pairs with this helpful exercise.

Jumpstart your students' love of introductory clauses with these exercises that not only teach them the correct format, but also show them how their writing can be enhanced!

Seeing how one object is related to another is important in describing things in time, space, or size. Give your fifth grader the tools they need to understand this concept with these exercises.

Our world is measured in relative phrases, and prepositions allow your student to describe nouns in a way that utilizes the knowledge of another.

Creating compound sentences can be confusing for fourth graders to learn, but this lesson can be made easy with interactive exercises and helpful hints found here.

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!

In this final exercise in the series, students will become adept at applying their knowledge of prefixes to forming new words and expanding their vocabulary.

Matching pronouns with their antecedent in writing can be confusing for some fourth graders, but these exercises were developed to aid in student understanding and retention.

Have your students practice their sentence combining skills with these exercises that give them visuals and helpful hints.

Students with a strong foundation in the present tense of verbs will be able to better understand other tenses.

After this exercise, students will be able to easily use suffixes to change an adjective into a noun.

Students who complete this exercise will have no problem spelling tricky multi-syllable words.

Give your fourth grader the knowledge they need to succeed in writing with these exercises that test them on their knowledge of parts of speech and how they fit into sentences.

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.

Replacing possessive nouns with possessive pronouns helps your students' writing sound more natural and makes for an effortless read. Give your fifth graders the practice they need with these exercises created specifically for their age group.

Students will be able to clarify a statement with the ability to use past tense verbs.

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.

Teach your fifth graders when interjections are appropriate and how to use them with these exercises that have a variety of questions and helpful hints.

Help develop the fluency of your student's writing with these exercises that help them understand the importance of matching object and subject pronouns with their antecedent.