Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

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

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

Learn more about FDR and his influence on the country in this biography worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

If your child needs help understanding big ideas and concepts, have her tackle this helpful reading comprehension worksheet.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths. Check out a little bit of kappa myth with this coloring page.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

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

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.

Sing a sweet song about birds with this worksheet.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

In this fun worksheet, read all about the Vodnici and then answer some critical thinking questions about the eyewitness accounts.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Our silkworm facts help your little one understand more about these special invertebrates. He'll read about their life stages and answer some questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Read more about the Florida Skunk Ape and one of the most famous encounter stories. Then, use your imagination to write a letter about the encounter.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

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

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.