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

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

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

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Yippee! Get excited to practice using interjections!

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

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

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

You need to know how to join sentences together, so practice with this upper elementary worksheet!

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

Learners will work closely with two common homophones, write and right, in this grammar worksheet.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

Check students’ understanding and analysis of chapters 13 through 28 of Louis Sachar’s Holes with this discussion guide!

Sharpen your grammar skills with this worksheet focused on using progressive tense verbs!

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Children will boost their negative word vocabulary, and then practice spotting double negatives in sentences.

This worksheet gives kids the opportunity to compare and contrast two different versions of the Greek myth of Persephone.

In this worksheet, learners will use a word bank to match the correct homograph to the two clues given.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this writing exercise, children write a descriptive paragraph or two about the colors that surround them in autumn.

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Practice differentiating between similar words in this engaging worksheet!