Young writers compare writing a paper to building a barn. They write a thesis statement using parallel construction and use transitions to hold the paper (walls of the barn) together. A barn raising video link is included; great for...

In this language arts worksheet, students read 8 incomplete sentence and choose the best verb phrase to fill in the blanks. This page is intended for ESL students.

In this grammar worksheet, 2nd graders write the correct adverb in each of 5 sentences using words from a bank at the top of the page. They use words such as carefully, sharply, and harshly.

In these five recognizing synonyms worksheets, learners read short stories and use word banks to choose synonyms to replace the underlined words. Students rewrite 5 stories replacing 30 synonyms.

A bird that's afraid of flying? See what happens to this character when it's time to fly south. Over the course of the lesson, pupils discuss fears in general, share their fears, make predictions about the film, and view the film. The...

Looking for a fun way to teach grammar concepts and terms to your elementary schoolers? Learners create their own grammar reference books with this resource! After cutting out each box and stapling them together to create booklets, young...

Provide these templates as aids for pupils as they work to compose summaries of both stories and informational texts. The first two frames provide sentence starters to help learners structure their summaries and include all the necessary...

Immaculate, accumulation, dissipation. Vocabulary drawn from chapter 16 of James McBride's memoir, The Color of Water, can prove to be challenge for readers. To help kids understand the meaning of these words and what they add to the...

What a creative and engaging project to incorporate into your studies of the 1920s! Your young historians will work in groups to design a magazine discussing the political and cultural topics of the decade, each member writing one...

Practice reading a timeline with this two-page worksheet that illustrates a fun week at summer camp and tests comprehension with seven questions.

Don't judge a book—or a toy—by its cover. Omri, a main character in The Indian in the Cupboard, quickly judged his plastic toy figures as boring. However, once placed in the cupboard, Omri's toys became something he never imagined....

Help your young writers improve the clarity of their sentences by showing them how to create parallel structures as they construct sentences. Two exercises give kids practice identifying the correct parallel structure and crafting...

Youngsters practice retelling a part of their favorite Native American tale to a small group of their peers. Peer partners assess each others performances. To keep comments positive and constructive, consider giving your class sentence...

In this completing sentences learning exercise, students fill in the blank in ten sentences with the correct word from the word pool. There is no apparent connection in the words.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences with words from the word list. These have no theme or connection.

In this truth tables worksheet, students solve 5 short answer problems. Students make a truth table for five conditional statements.

Second graders watch as volunteers divide large paper M&Ms on the board. They divide M&Ms into groups and write division sentences to show understanding of division concept. They eat M&Ms.

Second graders construct the 3 types of clouds using cotton balls and write sentences describing them. In this clouds lesson plan, 2nd graders describe a cumulus, stratus, and cirrus cloud.

Students practice changing sentence fragments into complete sentences.

In this irregular verbs activity, students write the past tense of 12 verbs and then use them to complete 9 sentences. These will be irregular verbs.

Students construct number sentences. In this computation lesson, students participate in a game using four numbers to make the number 24.

In this grammar instructional activity, students rewrite and finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with appropriate punctuation.

Is your class struggling with synonyms and antonyms? This resource asks learners to identify a synonym and an antonym for six given words. There are various scaffolds in place for pupils including: a word bank, information on word roots,...

Young scholars create a wheel from construction paper to use to create sentences. The wheel consists of four concentric circles, beginning with the largest being 8 inches in diameter. Each circle represents one part of a sentence....