Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Use this touching worksheet to help your child with reading comprehension and storytelling skills.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

Every state has lots of court houses and hundreds of judges, but our country has set one court above all the rest -- the Supreme Court.

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.

This worksheet is designed to help students understand what is a heading is and practice writing them.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Collect your favorite summer quotes from friends and family in this Say What? sheet.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

This template encourages thoughtful, engaged reading as children practice making predictions as they go.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.