Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Connections with Our Feelings.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Connections with Our Feelings.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

Use this worksheet to learn Cassowary facts, and introduce your child to an exotic species of bird from Down Under.

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

In this worksheet, kids will look at the labeled diagram of them monarch butterfly and then use what they have learned to finish the sentences.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

Using the brothers from Ender's Game, our writing worksheet gives your child the opportunity to examine any rivalries between him and his siblings or friends.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Watch Louis Sachar’s Holes come to life in the movie adaptation!