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Reading and writing are some of the most important skills your child will ever learn. Help them perfect them with our reading and writing exercises. We have quizzes that cover it all: Parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, types of sentences, and lots, lots more. Try them all, or focus on specific topics like Proper nounsIn our other excercise collections.

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Past Tense Verbs
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Students who complete this exercise will be able to say they learned about the different types of past tense verbs thanks to Education.com.
Year 2
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences 3
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Have your fifth graders challenge themselves with these exercises that ask them to identify independent and dependent clauses while reviewing different sentence structures.
Year 6
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Adjectives with -er and -est
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Students do not have to be the fastest completing this exercise to understand adjectives better than ever before.
Year 4
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences will help students practise this key year four skill. Try our free exercises to build knowledge and confidence.
Year 4
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences 1
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Review simple, compound, and complex sentences with your third grader to help them succeed as they begin writing reports and essays.
Year 4
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences 2
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Solidify previous lessons with these exercises that review simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students will pick the correct form of a sentence from multiple choices.
Year 5
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Root Words
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Students will understand just where their vocabulary words come from with this root words exercise.
Year 4
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Complete Sentences
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Give students practise with all of the parts that make up complete sentences in this exercise.
Year 6
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Types of Sentences
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Test your students with these exercises that have them identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. Helpful hints give your students all the information they need to work through the problems on their own.
Year 6
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Synonyms and Antonyms 2
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Now that students understand the difference between a synonym and an antonym, have them solidify that knowledge with practise.
Year 5
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Correlative Conjunctions
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Help students expand their knowledge of sentence structures with these exercises that encourage students to use correlative conjunctions in their writing.
Year 6
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Synonyms and Antonyms 3
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This exercise’s further practise identifying synonyms and antonyms will reinforce your students’ understanding of like and opposite words.
Year 6
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Complete Sentences vs. Fragments 1
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Help your third grader identify whether or not a sentence is complete with these exercises that give your student helpful hints when they get stuck!
Year 4
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Pronoun-Verb Agreement
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Eliminate a common error in speaking and writing with this exercise that teaches pronoun and verb agreement.
Year 4
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Hyperbole
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Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.
Year 6
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Syllable Rules
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Teach your students how to navigate syllabus rules so they will be able to sound out words much easier.
Year 4
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Idioms 1
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Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.
Year 5
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Onomatopoeia
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Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.
Year 6
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Conjunctions 1
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Teach your third grader how to write two-thought sentences with these exercises that use conjunctions to merge shorter sentences into one.
Year 4
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives 2
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Help your students add detail to their writing by having them incorporate comparative and superlative adjectives. Detailed writing is important as your fourth grader continues on in school and writing assignments become more intense.
Year 5
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Similes 3
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Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.
Year 6
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Transition Words 3
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Have your fifth grader use sentence details and clues to determine the best transition word to link two sentences.
Year 6
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Comma After Transition Words for Passage of Time 3
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Take your fifth graders' story telling abilities to the next level with these exercises that have them put their knowledge of transition words to the test.
Year 6
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Irregularly Spelled Words 1
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Even after students have learned phonics, there are plenty of irregular words this exercise can help them learn to spell.
Year 4
Reading & Writing

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Is your child a human calculator, but not so hot in language arts? Help them build skills (and build confidence) in ELA with Education.com's online reading and writing exercises. Across the elementary school grade levels, kids cover quite a lot -- they start with simple letter learning, and by the time they're through, they're working on more complicated ideas like metaphors and past participles. No matter what grade level your student is currently at, we've got everything you need to take on reading and writing practise for all grade levels -- everything from parts of speech on up to sentence structure and onomatopoeias. Our exercises are a fun digital addition to plain old pencil and paper learning, and come in many formats, like mix and match or multiple choice, to cater to a range of learning styles. If they get worn out on reading and writing, they can try MathsNext, or start our ELA series all over again!

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