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

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

History buffs and fiction lovers alike will enjoy learning about legendary writer Mark Twain with this Wild West worksheet!

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Give your students the questions and organizer to evaluate creative work. Use this worksheet to guide student evaluations of their partner’s creative products.

Review the parts of speech with this sentence diagramming worksheet! Young writers will gain a better understanding of sentence structure.

Pick up some fun movie trivia and learn about how special sound effects are made on this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this organizer to help students track examples of hyperbole.

Print out this sheet to help your child understand the difference between further and farther, two of the trickiest words in the English language!

Read the eyewitness accounts of sightings at Russell Hotel, then do some comparing and contrasting using the Venn diagram at the bottom.

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Learn about movie sound effects with this reading and writing worksheet. Your young movie fan will enjoy learning about the job of sound designers.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Got grammar problems? Your student can practice his parts of speech as he diagrams sentences in this practice sheet.

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

A day of fishing is interrupted by a giant sea monster! What happens next? This writing prompt will help your student stretch his imagination.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Challenge your students to refine their thinking and explanations!

Did you spill the salt? Step on a crack? Do you even care? You decide what, if anything, causes bad luck. Get the juices flowing for some creative writing.

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

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.