Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

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.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

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

Spin the wheel! Kids practice the root word SIGN and build out their vocabulary with this worksheet.

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

This worksheet, which reads like riddles, will expose your learners to important abolitionists in the African American community.

Help your students get to know a common root word with this great graphic organizer.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

Get learners' creative juices flowing with this thought-provoking, leap year-inspired writing prompt!

Practice opinion writing using a real life situation with this prompt that focuses on changes in the classroom.

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

With this worksheet, your child can practice his punctuation and get acquainted with a piece of classic literature!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

In Greek mythology, it was believed that trees had souls called dryads. These female spirits would watch over the forest.

Celebrating the New Year is all about tradition, and it's different in every culture! Many common traditions are actually based on superstition.

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

This joker is walking right into bad luck, literally! You get to decide what happens to him after he walks under this ladder. Be as creative as you want.

A.J. and C.K. are at a baseball game! Let your fourth grader use their big imagination to fill in the speech bubbles in this comic strip-writing adventure.

Hey, what's Kraken? Kraken are mythical sea creatures with terrifying tentacles. Tell your young writer to come up with a story for Captain Kraken.

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... flying baby? Your imaginative young writer can come up with a story for this unlikely superhero.