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.

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.

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

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.

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

Matching pronouns with their antecedent in writing can be confusing for some fourth graders, but these exercises were developed to aid in student understanding and retention.

Teach your students the difference between closers and multi-clause sentences with these exercises that have them practice their placement of punctuation marks in both cases.

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

Expand on your punctuation mark lessons with these exercises that allow your students to see apostrophes in action by creating plural possessive nouns.

Help improve the fluidity of your students' written pieces by introducing them to possessive nouns. These exercises allow for individual practice and encourages students to think through challenges with helpful hints!

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

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

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

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

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.

Show students why they need to give special attention to the syllable ‘y’ found at the end of many words.

Expertly split syllables with this phonics activity! A strong understanding of syllabication patterns can improve students’ ability to break apart and decode unfamiliar words.