This Education.com exercise makes it clear to students how to break down compound and hyphenated words correctly.

Review simple, compound, and complex sentences with your students to help them succeed as they begin writing reports and essays.

Creating compound sentences can be confusing for fourth graders to learn, but this lesson can be made easy with interactive exercises and helpful hints found here.

Solidify previous lessons with these exercises that review simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students will pick the correct form of a sentence from multiple choices.

Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.

This exercise will teach students how to use common suffixes to change a verb’s tense.

Use this exercise to show students how suffixes can be used to change adjectives and adverbs.

After this exercise, students will be able to easily use suffixes to change an adjective into a noun.

Inject personality into your fourth grader's writing with interjections. These exercises give them the ability to practice and learn about interjections at their own speed.

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.

Students will understand just where their vocabulary words come from with this root words exercise.

Help students connect the dots on the sometimes confusing subject of linking verbs with this exercise.

Give students a helping hand with this exercise that explains and gives examples of helping verbs.

From common phrases to place names, this exercise will show students how to abbreviate with ease.

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.

This exercise will help students expand their vocabulary by learning how to read multi syllable words.

This exercise will teach students learn how to pronounce the unique sounds of words containing double syllables.

This exercise provides ground rules for forming plurals, as well as common irregular words students should learn.

Show students how verbs can be used to add more character to a statement using descriptive verbs.

With the basics established, students will enjoy making use of the knowledge of common prefixes shared in this exercise.

By the time students have finished this exercise, changing an adjective into a noun will be a piece of cake.

This example-filled exercise will help students develop a fuller understanding of context from clues embedded in texts.

Some words are remarkably similar, and this exercise will build students’ confidence in finding the difference between them.

English is a language full of exceptions to rules, and this exercise will enhance students’ understanding of irregularly spelled words.

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.

Students will understand how to utilize suffixes to modify verb-noun pairs into adjective-adverb pairs with this helpful exercise.

Abbreviating customary and metric units of measure correctly will come naturally to your students after they work through this exercise.

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