5th - 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 65

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

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

These cut-and-paste cards provide students with steps for writing the introduction, body, and conclusion parts of an informational text.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Give learners a chance to think deeply and hone their writing skills with this relatable and inspirational writing prompt, featuring a quote by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Challenge your students to refine their thinking and explanations!

What ten essentials would you pack in case of an emergency? Help kids think about disaster preparedness from zombie apocalypse point of view!

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Your budding writer can review the parts of speech with this worksheet on sentence diagrams. He'll get a better grasp on sentence structure as he goes.

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

Help students consider ways they can show courtesy to others during National Courtesy Month with this engaging writing prompt!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

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

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

Start a word collection of your own with this helpful table.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

About 14 million people visit the historic city of Berlin each year. Give your students the opportunity to study and share historic facts and places in Germany's capital with this brochure exercise.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.