Homophones
Write or right? In this language arts worksheet, your child will look up sets of homophones to learn the definitions of the all the like-sounding (but differently spelled) words.
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Using a dictionary
A dictionary tells you a word's meaning, spelling, how it's used, and its origins. In this language arts worksheet, your child will practice using a dictionary to find the meanings, origins, and uses of five words.
Using a dictionary: alphabetical order
In this language arts worksheet, your child will practice using a dictionary to look up 13 words, list them in alphabetical order, and write the meanings, origins, and uses for each.
Poems: a mysterious story (pronouns)
The writer avoids pronouns by repeating the nouns. In this language arts worksheet, your child will get practice identifying nouns and pronouns by comparing and contrasting a section of a poem with pronouns replacing nouns.
Proofreading
These riddles need editing! In this langauge arts worksheet, your child gets practice identifying where capital letters, commas, quotation marks, and other punctuation marks are needed to make the riddles easier to read.
Vowel sounds: ough
These words are spelled the same, but they sound different! In this reading worksheet, your child gets practice sounding out, writing, and finding rhyming pairs for words with ough in them.
Vowel sounds: ou
Same letters, different sounds! In this reading worksheet, your child gets practice sounding out, writing, and finding rhyming pairs for words with ou in them.
Using a dictionary: root words
Look it up! In this language arts worksheet, your child will practice using a dictionary to look up words with similar roots, write short definitions, and create new words from a list of root words.
Suffixes -ible, -able, -ive, and -ion
A suffix is a group of letters added to the end of a root word. In this language arts worksheet, your child gets practice adding four common suffixes to root words and checking the spelling in the dictionary.
Punctuation practice
What are these punctuation marks called - and how are they used? In this writing and editing worksheet, your child gets practice identifying and using commas, semicolons, quotation marks, exclamation marks, colons, and dashes while editing a paragraph.
