Use this play planner to give your students a head start on writing their own play!

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Did you know that Queen Isabella of Spain paid for Columbus' expedition to the New World? Read more about this interesting woman in history.

Get mischievous during story time and read the story of "Rumpelstiltskin", abridged for your first grader.

Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

Get to know one of the most unique and colorful monkeys, the red-shanked douc langur. Read about why they are an endangered species with this info-sheet.

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

If your kid is crazy for castles and knights, have her read Eleanor's biography in this worksheet. Enhance her reading skills with a short comprehension quiz.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

This worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, helps refine knowledge manners that change from culture to culture.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.