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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
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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 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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Pun
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There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.
Year 6
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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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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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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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Suffixes to Change Verbs and Nouns to Adjectives and Adverbs
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Students will understand how to utilize suffixes to modify verb-noun pairs into adjective-adverb pairs with this helpful exercise.
Year 5
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Compound and Hyphenated Compound Words 1
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This Education.com exercise makes it clear to students how to break down compound and hyphenated words correctly.
Year 5
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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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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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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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Homophones and Homographs 1
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Homophones and homographs make look similar, but they have different meanings, which this exercise will illustrate with classic examples of both.
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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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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Metaphors 1
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Students will understand how to identify and use metaphors after they work through this exercise.
Year 4
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Comparatives
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Students will learn how to compare two objects by pracising this short exercise on comparatives.
Year 6
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Synonyms and Antonyms 1
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Encourage students to play the opposite game in this engaging exercise involving synonyms and antonyms.
Year 4
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Parts of Speech 2
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Give your fourth grader the knowledge they need to succeed in writing with these exercises that test them on their knowledge of parts of speech and how they fit into sentences.
Year 5
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Capitalization of Titles and Headings 1
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Kids will get lots of practise with capitalizing the titles of common books and poems in this exercise. Helpful hints guide kids on the rules of capitalization.
Year 4
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Linking Verbs
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Help students connect the dots on the sometimes confusing subject of linking verbs with this exercise.
Year 5
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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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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
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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