Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

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.

Color in this cool scene at the White House, and learn a few White House facts too!

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.

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.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Take flight with this ode to inventors! See the history of the helicopter, from its conception in ancient China to the modern vehicle it is today.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Ever wonder why we hunt for Easter eggs? Discover how this spring holiday was started with this interesting look at the history of Easter.

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

This worksheet introduces students to Jesse Owens, whose successes in the 1938 Olympics made history and paved the way for African-Americans in all sports and fields.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Use this Reader’s Theater Script to engage your students as they practice reading fluently.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Your young readers are sure to enjoy this story about Ralph and the discovery he makes on his walk. This worksheet will help strengthen your students' comprehension skills as they answer questions about the text.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

Review Civil War key terms and people with this history sheet. Your child will decide which terms describe the Confederacy and which describe the Union.

Got time to rhyme? Check out this fun rhyme scheme worksheet with two laughable limericks.