Reading is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about deriving meaning from the text! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them draw and write about their favorite parts.

Use this short story with comprehension questions to help your students practice identifying cause and effect relationships in a fictional text.

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

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Not all predictions are created equal. In this worksheet, students seek to identify the events that are most likely to happen while explaining their thinking.

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Students will sort out sentences that reflect facts and opinions.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

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

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was a fascinating woman in history. Learn a bit more about her life with this history worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Build your learner's logical thinking skills by asking them to connect pictures that show what came first and what comes next.

Use this discussion guide to engage learners in meaningful dialogue after they've read chapters 14–18 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. 

Kids love to observe what people look like and what they wear. Turn this curiosity into a fun game to help with pre-reading skills.

Kids recall important details from a story in this listening comprehension worksheet.

The Battle of San Jacinto was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Your child will sharpen his reading skills and his knowledge of U.S. history!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!