Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Is your child crazy about sharks? Give him a fun and informational coloring page, all about the great white shark!

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Help students answer questions about Little Boy Blue in this worksheet that strengthens reading and listening skills.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

The “I Voted” sticker has become a tradition at polling booths around the country! Introduce children to this symbol of civic pride with this engaging coloring worksheet.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

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.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

A big focus in kindergarten is on reading comprehension skills. This open ended worksheet is a wonderful way for students to practice these skills as they map out a familiar story using their own words and images.

Learn more about legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this nonfiction reading sheet from our Jewish-American Heroes series.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

After reading the poem, draw a picture of the two main characters.

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.