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Simile or cliché?

Light as a feather is a simile (a comparative phrase that uses like or as) - but because it's used so much, it's a bit of a cliché. In this language arts worksheet, your child will come up with original comparisons for adjectives, verbs, and nouns...

Compound sentences

Simple sentences can become compound sentences by adding a clause. In this writing worksheet, your child gets practice building and understanding simple, compound, and complex sentences.

Subtracting suffixes

Each of these words has a suffix - can you remove it? In this language arts worksheet, your child gets practice recognizing root words and suffixes and gets practice combining each to create new words.

Its or it's?

It's with an apostrophe is the abbreviation for it is. Its without an apostrophe indicates possession. In this language arts worksheet, your child gets practice identifying the correct uses for it's and its.

Prepositions

In this writing worksheet, your child writes the correct preposition into each pre-written sentence and then writes 10 full sentences using prepositional phrases.

Colons, semicolons, and dashes

In this grammar worksheet, your child learns how to write sentences using a colon, semicolon, or dash.

Soft c and homophones

In this language arts worksheet, your child gets practice using the dictionary to look up words with the soft c sound made by the letter combination ci such as civil, and homophones such as eight and fare.

Connectives

Connectives are connecting words. In this language arts worksheet, your child gets practice combining two simple sentences into one compound sentence using joining words such as because and conjunctions such as and, but, so, and for.

Homophones and homographs

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have a different meaning. Homographs are words that sound the same and are spelled the same but have a different meaning. In this language arts worksheet, your child will fill in the missing...

Punctuating a paragraph

Can you edit this paragraph so that it makes sense? In this writing worksheet, your child will edit a paragraph by adding capital letters and proper punctuation where needed. Bonus: your child will practice writing a paragraph with dialogue using quotation marks, too.

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