Make reading more enjoyable and interactive with literature circles! Here you'll find detailed lessons to begin the literature circle process. Ten lessons introduce each role learners take on. Literature circle roles include...

A collection of reading passages is packed with various skills to enhance fourth graders reading comprehension. From distinguishing between fact and opinion to describing character's feelings and recognizing elements of plot, the...

A performance task challenges scholars to read an informational text then respond with an explanatory essay. The exam begins with an independent reading of Seeing Eye to Eye by Leslie Hall. A second reading follows with the completion of...

Word analysis is the focus of eight activities created to boost vocabulary skills. Through learning games and practice pages, scholars identify word relationships, discover new words to replace commonly used words, categorize words,...

Young scholars work with word cards to define and identify synonyms, antonyms, and homophones. Participants listen to instruction, read word cards, discuss their new-found knowledge, and put it into action by creating sentences and...

Each pale pail is filled with flour and flowers. But luckily the hare's hair keeps him warm! Homographs and homonyms are tricky words, but can be fun to explore and build word knowledge. Use a packet of activities that focuses on...

Looking for spring-themed literacy centers? Look no further because here is a resource packed full of literacy skills practice, including spring verbs, ABC order, spring synonym match, spring phrases, abbreviation match, and a sentence...

Follow a scaffolded routine to reinforce the concept of figurative language. With a read-aloud of Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan, class members observe how to identify personification and idioms, chart phrases and meanings, then...

Ten multiple choice questions make up a grammar worksheet that lends its focus to synonyms. Young grammarians read each question and choose from four words that best make a synonym pair.

Reinforce grammar instruction with a synonym worksheet equipped with 12 fill-in-the blank sentences. Scholars read each sentence focusing on the underlined word, then choose between two additional words that best make a synonym pair.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a coloring page in which scholars decide whether a pair of words are synonyms or antonyms, and color them either red or purple depending on their decision. 

Provide some straightforward practice with antonyms by assigning this learning exercise. Given a word, pupils choose the antonym of that word from three choices. Learners practice their antonym skills with 15 words.

Why say that someone is nice when you could express so much more by calling this person delightful, charming, or gracious? After going over a sample word, have your pupils exercise their synonym skills by assigning each pair an overly...

Practice antonyms with a straightforward worksheet. Along the left side of the page is a list of words. Pupils write in the antonyms for these words in the blank spaces provided.

With this comprehensive language arts resource in your arsenal, you'll never have to look for another grammar learning exercise! Whether you're teaching kindergartners how to write the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, or...

Kids select a word from the provided bank that is similar in meaning to the underlined word in 14 sentences.

After matching 13 words with a list of synonyms, kids craft a short paragraph about the circus using the provided synonyms.

To demonstrate their understanding of synonyms and antonyms, kids label pairs of words as either the same or opposite in meaning.

There are opposites all around you, even at school! Using an antonym word bank with playground-themed words, young learners complete sentences opposite in meaning from the ones provided.

What happens to a sentence when you replace a word with its antonym? A two-part instructional activity asks learners to select words opposite in meaning to provided words, and then to craft sentences using antonyms for given words.

Knowing the opposite of your chosen word is a great step in improving your word choice. Young readers select an antonym from the provided word bank to complete a series of 14 sentences.

What's the antonym for wild? What's the opposite of young? Young readers identify the antonyms in a series of ten sentences. Next, they jot down the word pairs to reinforce the relationship between each set of antonym.

Kids add interest to a paragraph about a day at school by replacing flat, over-used words with synonyms.