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Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Tuning My Writing Voice

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

Working with Analogies 2

Connecting sentences and ideas is key in essay and report writing, and these exercises will help your fourth grader get ahead of the curve.

Transition Words 2

Teach your fourth grader how to properly punctuate dialogue with these exercises that focus on quotation marks as incorporated in various sentence formats. 

Punctuation in Dialogue 2

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Halloween Story Starters #2

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 2

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Halloween Writing Prompts #2

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #2

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

Become a more powerful writer with this worksheet about sentence structure created for third and fourth graders!

Better Together: Combining Sentences #2

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

What Is an Analogy?

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Using Dialogue to Pace Your Piece

Learn how to write dialogue with this writing activity that, in the long run, will help you better understand literature.

How to Write Dialogue

Enhance your writing by revising sentences in this third- and fourth-grade grammar worksheet!

Better Together: Combining Sentences #3

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Practice Using Transitions #1

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

How to Write Dialogue Between Characters

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

Paragraphs That POP!

Sentence Makeover Part 1

What would happen if Megalodon and the Loch Ness Monster went head-to-head? Your budding writer can have fun narrating this epic battle!

Loch Ness Monster vs Megalodon

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

Interesting Introductions

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Gratitude Journal

What if Cinderella’s stepsisters weren’t really evil? In this engaging lesson, you will introduce your students to multiple points of view and discuss how these different perspectives can change a reader’s experience.

Whose Point Is It Anyway?

If you break a mirror, will it really give you bad luck for 7 years? Investigate the origins of this famous superstition with a fun writing activity.

Broken Mirror

Young writers will learn to manipulate and combine sentences with conjunctions and adverb phrases. This skill helps students understand that crafting sentences is a creative and artistic process. 

Sentence Scramble

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Common Idioms

Spellers take their skills to the stratosphere with this fun practice worksheet.

Spelling List: Space Exploration

Engage your fourth grader in another comic strip writing exercise with the third installment in the Adventures of A.J. and C.K. series.

Cat Comics: Up a Tree

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