Reading Resources : Page 52

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

It's always perfect weather for writing poems! Engage students in writing poetry with this fun activity. Go outside and start thinking creatively!

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Read about an important and controversial events that took place on American soil during WWII, at the Topaz War Relocation Center.

A fun game for students, book bingo can either be played as a game to diversify student reading or as a way to have students begin interacting and talking about the types of reading materials they enjoy.

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

Using this fun prediction practice worksheet, students will develop reading and comprehension skills.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool whale facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Help students turn instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a cohesive piece of procedural writing. Using transition words is the key to successful how-to writing!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Bring this Jack Be Nimble coloring page to life with crayons! Color nimble Jack, decked out in star-spangled pajamas as he jumps over candlesticks.

This shark is anything but fearsome, in fact, he's a bit adorable! Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, all about the whale shark.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

Add some fun to the old-fashioned placeholder with this bookmark! Your child answers a few questions and makes the bookmark, and the experience, all her own!