"Provides upper elementary students a deeper understanding of how the English language works while enriching their vocabularies and improving their reading and writing skills through information and lessons about language"-- Provided by publisher.

Power up vocabulary teaching and learning -- Nyms are names -- Words are like seeds : planting ideas about similes and metaphors -- Raining cats and dogs : idioms have deep meaning -- Making our language more colorful : shades of meaning and word origins -- How pros make their writing come alive : inside tips from popular children's authors.