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.

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

Exercise your beginning writer's creativity and sentence-building skills with this fun family project, all about mom!

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Get ready for a ghostly reading activity! Here's a Halloween sheet that will teach your child all about ghosts and the history behind these spooks.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Help your learner get to know their family members with a fun interview and creative writing exercise, all about Grandma!

Kids will get to explore adjectives and descriptive words in this worksheet where three time travelers visit the future and try to describe the things they see.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Expose your students to new vocabulary and root words with this rockin’ exercise!

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying root words in context. T

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

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

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Differentiate between similar words with this appealing worksheet!

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

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

As students read nonfiction books, have them think which important words teach about the main topic. At the end of this activity, students will have made a web of vocabulary words!

Use these picture cards to introduce your students to 16 common theme words.