Help your fifth graders embellish their written work with these exercises that give them practice using adjectives to add detail to their sentences.

Using descriptive verbs will add more color to any comment, and this exercise shows students how to incorporate them.

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.

For additional practice, have students complete this exercise that will give them mastery over compound and hyphenated words.

Add more adjectives to the list of words your students are familiar with by assigning this simple exercise.

Teach students how to change the meaning of words by adding suffixes with this simple exercise.

Showing students how to work with coordinating and subordinating conjunctions has never been easier thanks to this exercise.

Students will be masters of using suffixes to modify adjectives and adverbs after this exercise.

After completing the following exercise, students will be able to answer basic questions about an event involving how, when, and where.

Have your fifth grader use sentence details and clues to determine the best transition word to link two sentences.

By the time students have finished this exercise, changing an adjective into a noun will be a piece of cake.

Teach your fifth graders when interjections are appropriate and how to use them with these exercises that have a variety of questions and helpful hints.

Students who complete this exercise will have no problem spelling tricky multi-syllable words.

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.

Students will understand just where their vocabulary words come from with this root words exercise.

Students who complete this exercise will be able to explain situations more clearly using adverbs.

Give students practice with all of the parts that make up complete sentences in this exercise.

Give your students an overall understanding of the many other verbs that exist with this exercise.

This exercise will show students the difference between some of the most common homophones and homographs.

Help students put a name to their favorite numbers with this exercise on prefixes related to numbers.

Students will hone their ability to identify differences between homophones with this final exercise in the series.

Students will be able to read between the lines after studying this exercise on identifying contextual clues.

Your students will be masters of irregularly spelled words after completing this final exercise in the series.

Show students how to describe an action in the recent past with this exercise on past tense verbs.

Spelling will be a breeze for students after they complete their understanding of suffixes with this final exercise in the series.

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.

After your students complete this exercise, they will feel confident in consulting reference materials to find answers on their own.