In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of Speech that Describe.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

Students will use this worksheet to help them review their explanations for specific problems.

Your learner can refine his knowledge of the different parts of speech with this sentence diagramming worksheet.

Help your child fill in the blanks with this fun worksheet, which challenges your child to find the missing consonants to complete the sentence.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

By writing his own story in this worksheet, your child can learn to "fill in the blanks" of reading comprehension.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

In nonfiction, bolding and underlining are frequently used to help words stand out. In fiction, authors can use ALL CAPS to add emphasis to a character’s voice.

With this themed worksheet, your students will rewrite sentences to include singular possessives that contain an apostrophe.

It's time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Partners will work together to complete this worksheet as they participate in peer editing.

Students will learn about the sword maker Muramasa Sengo, read through the eyewitness accounts, and decide who the trustworthy source is!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Quotes with Introductory Phrases.

Read about exciting early cinema like The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station! Find out how mundane topics entertained and even scared audiences.

Match these famous movie quotes with their films! Some of these famous movie quotes from classics, and others are from new favorites for a fun challenge.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Problem and Solution Practice.

What lurks inside this spooky house? Your 5th grader can invent her own scary story based on this haunting illustration!

This ghostly worksheet will help your young writer learn to use adjectives to help tell a colorful story! She'll fill in the blanks to set the mood.