A soldier meets a mysterious stranger in a graveyard. Could this be the dark figure that townsfolk have seen darting in and out of the shadows?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

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

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.

Kids who love space can learn all about the heroic Sally Ride, the first American woman to venture into space.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

This great brain teaser challenges your child to unscramble president names and a riddle. It's a fun Presidents Day worksheet featuring Mount Rushmore!

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

Clues can help us make predictions! Students will read a story about Molly, find the clues, and use those clues to predict what Molly will do next.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Learn about first Lady Dolley Madison with this history worksheet, complete with some reading comprehension exercises.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Give your wild child this werewolf story to read this Halloween. He'll have a spooky story to share with friends, and get some reading practice, too!

"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

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 reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

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

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Your kid may have seen the movie, but has he ever read the story of Rapunzel? Here, the story of Rapunzel is told in its entirety with two different endings.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

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

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