Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Learn all about Sinterklaas (sound familiar?) and the fun traditions that kids in the Netherlands look forward to every Christmas!

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

Read this creepy story about a mythological creature called a korrigan, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

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

Have some fun with haiku! Practice syllable counting and creative writing by coming up with funny haiku poems for April Fools' Day.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop and practice reading comprehension by sharing about books they’ve read. After taking turns telling a partner all about their chosen books, students will write or draw about what their partner shared.

Does your child know where their toys come from before they're in the toy store? Get your student ready to research with this fun worksheet and activity.

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

This Anne of Green Gables coloring page will excite your little fan, as she adds color to the energetic, redheaded character from the beloved book series!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool weedy seadragon facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

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

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Special effects in movies have been around almost as long as movies themselves. These worksheets introduce kids to the early filmmaker, Georges Méliès.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool catfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Learn about famous nonfiction writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Jack London in this fun worksheet, then try writing some nonfiction yourself.