Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: I Can Use Context Clues!

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: I Can Use Context Clues!

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

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

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

How well do you know your country's past presidents? Here is a challenging series of match-up games, featuring U.S. presidents!

In this worksheet, students will use context clues to help make sense of unfamiliar words.

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

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the Wilhelm scream! Read about the famous Wilhelm scream on this worksheet with a research assignment.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Uh oh, I spy a typo! This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their writing.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying the root words "son" and "sect" in context.

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe the summer climate where they live.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.