After your students complete this exercise, they will feel confident in consulting reference materials to find answers on their own.

This exercise is the difference between the proverbial "teaching your students to fish" and simply giving them the answers.

Have your fifth grader use sentence details and clues to determine the best transition word to link two sentences.

Develop your student's reading and writing skills with these exercises that expand upon their knowledge of apostrophes in the written word by putting them in the context of contractions.