Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

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

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Does an octopus have 8 tentacles? Test your fact and opinion identification skills with this colorful undersea adventure.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Learn about school uniforms around the world as students are going back to school!

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

What if Paul Bunyan stepped into the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story? Make writing practice creative and fun for your child with a coloring page story starter.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Show your child the benefits of making connections with the characters in a story with this introspective worksheet.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

What if Peter Pan and Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" met? Your child gets to decide what happens next and write a story based on this fun coloring page scene!

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

Read about the Wampus Cat, a famous Tennessee legend. Test comprehension as your child reads about some of the sightings.