Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: How Pictures Can Help Us Read.

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

This coloring page features a scene from the classic children's poem, Star Light, Star Bright.

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

This Frankenstein worksheet is great for teaching kids about classic literature near Halloween. Use this Frankenstein worksheet with your child this October.

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.

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

The "teremok", or the little hideaway, is becoming home to many animals! Enjoy part two of this Russian folk tale, and help your child build reading skills.

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

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

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

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.

This worksheet is designed to help students understand what is a heading is and practice writing them.

Use this exercise with your students as they work through the realms of realism and fantasy.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

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.

If you're looking for an exciting genre, then mystery might just be the one for you!

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Does this shark look strange to you? Learn all about why his tail is so long with a fun and informative coloring page!

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.