5th - 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 64

Help your students' confidence in writing persuasive essays grow with this tree graphic organizer. Using this worksheet, students will make connections between opinion, reasons, and examples in their persuasive writing.

Special effects in movies have been around almost as long as movies themselves. These worksheets introduce kids to the early filmmaker, Georges Méliès.

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool saxophone facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Imagine you are a reporter in the midst of a zombie outbreak! Bring some spookiness to your child's daily writing journal with this fun prompt.

Students will put their persuasive skills to work with this worksheet. They will plan and write a draft of a persuasive paragraph on whether or not to buy an electronic device of their choosing.

Learners will embark on a top-level grammar and mechanics mission in this fun contractions worksheet.

Children are invited to reflect on the ways adversity can lead to gratitude in this thoughtful writing prompt.

Read a famous narrative poem, "Casey at the Bat," and practice reading comprehension skills at the same time in this printable mini-book worksheet.

Learners hone their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about Valentine's Day gift exchanges!

Children use their creative writing skills with this Thanksgiving prompt.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

If your students need an extra challenge, ask them to match up matching irregular verbs and use these verbs in context!

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Calculating caterpillars and capricious crayfish! Your child will be laughing as he learns some new vocabulary and practices using alliteration.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

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

Inspire learners' creativity with this fun and seasonal writing prompt about a peculiar engraving!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Here is a writing activity to review terms and concepts from the Civil War era. Your child will imagine being a soldier in the war and write a journal entry.

Young historians get to know the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, with this history and civics crossword puzzle.

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.

Kids imagine what they would do if a scarecrow showed up for Thanksgiving dinner in this creative writing exercise.

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Children are invited to plan their ideal Thanksgiving in this creative writing exercise.