Does your child have a chum, comrade, or confidant? These are all another way to say "friend"! Your child will expand their vocabulary as they practices using synonyms.

Learn all about the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, and find out why Egyptians built it hundreds of years ago.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

We’ve all started a new school or class, but each experience is unique! Write about yours with this third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade prompt.

"Casey at the Bat" is a poem written by Ernest Thayer in 1888. Children will read this poem all the way through, then go back and answer the questions for each stanza.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

If you're looking for an exciting genre, then mystery might just be the one for you!

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Encourage your child to decode a favorite quote in this reading comprehension sheet.

Use your imagination to decide what you would do if you had a million dollars! Write about it in this creative writing exercise.

A trip to the beach takes a crazy turn in this exciting fill-in-the-blank activity! 

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Take notes on peer conversations as students explain points that support their answers.

A.J. and C.K.'s camping adventure is up to your fourth grade author in this comic strip-writing adventure!

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.