Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Do you know how to haiku? This haiku worksheet gives your budding poet practice with counting syllables and noticing the role of rhythm in poetry.

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

Fill in this story map to organize the details of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

Put the sentences of the story in order from start to finish by numbering them. Read the story in the correct order when you're finished.

For October (or just for kids who love scary stories!), here's a great telling of Bancho Sarayashiki, one of Japan's most famous ghost stories.

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

Help your students take organized notes on a book, lesson, or video with this helpful worksheet. Kids will record facts they already know, what they learn, and questions they still have. Then they can paste their notes in their composition notebook.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

Is Washington, D.C. a U.S. state or a city? Find out about our nation's capital with this fun, informative history worksheet.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Your students will get to practice their writing and oral reading skills while learning more about their classmates with this fun questionnaire.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

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

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

There's a happy-looking, big-eared bat and some fun facts on this coloring page! And it's a great way to start a talk about endangered animals with your child.