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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Help your fourth graders identify transition words with these exercises that test their factual knowledge of the subject and put their skills to use in writing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The list goes on, and with so many irregular verbs, this helpful exercise brings a few more to your students’ attention.

After completing the following exercise, students will be able to answer basic questions about an event involving how, when, and where.