Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

A wonderful way for future voters to express their freedom and flex their writing skills is by penning a letter to a leader.

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Special effects in movies have been around almost as long as movies themselves. These worksheets introduce kids to the early filmmaker, Georges Méliès.

This Halloween story starter will help your child polish grammar, handwriting and spelling skills. Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween story starter!

This page about Jefferson City, Missouri helps kids practice their geography and cursive skills.

Little Easter Bunnies, get out your creative thinking caps and delve into this Easter writing prompt. Can you think up the best Easter egg hunt?

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool catfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Keep learning in the cards this Halloween. This spooky worksheet on quotations is sure to make any fourth grader have fun while learning!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Learn about famous nonfiction writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Jack London in this fun worksheet, then try writing some nonfiction yourself.

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

You've never heard a ghost story like The Phantom Knight of Vandal Camp! Discover the scares, if you dare, behind this tale before writing the ending.

There's life on Mars! It's the Molten Martian! This curious character can be a springboard to a story by your 4th grader. Let him take off into his imagination.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Enjoy a sweet writing response page all about Valentine's Day. Kids will get to reflect on an important person in their life.

Here is a writing activity to review terms and concepts from the Civil War era. Your child will imagine being a soldier in the war and write a journal entry.

This worksheet will expose your learners to important poets in the African American community.

Read about this dry, warm biome, then review what you've learned as you play a round or two of this fun-fact card game.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Here's a language arts worksheet that's sure to boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

A diamante poem is a diamond shaped poem. Show your students an example of this type of poem and invite them write their own diamantes!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Word Problem Vocabulary Preparation.