4th - 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 63

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

Your students will practice writing abbreviations for a variety of customary units of measurement. First, they’ll review, then they’ll put their knowledge to the test.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

If you're stuck at home this summer, try these fun pretend postcards instead for an exercise in creative writing!

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of the Pilgrims and report back to the Queen herself about life in the New England colonies.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Help your students plan a well-supported persuasive letter with this planning document.

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

Kids travel to a golden cave to learn new vocabulary in this reading comprehension worksheet.

If your students need practice identifying the roots and affixes of a word to decode the meaning, then this worksheet is for you!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

Use this handy fact sheet to teach your students about the ins and outs of comparative and superlative adjectives.

Students practice writing summer-themed sentences using adjectives with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, choose one of Mrs Who's quotes to research, reflect on, and design a bumper sticker around.

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

Use this guide to promote in-depth discussion after students have finished reading chapters 10–13 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

Have your child practice their descriptive writing by adding a prepositional phrase to each of the sentences on this worksheet.