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.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Learn about movie sound effects with this reading and writing worksheet. Your young movie fan will enjoy learning about the job of sound designers.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this exercise to give your students practice developing an opinion about a nonfiction topic. They will read a short passage and express an opinion about the topic based on the evidence in the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

Clues can help us make predictions! Students will read a story about Molly, find the clues, and use those clues to predict what Molly will do next.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Distinguish Between Facts and Opinions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Focus on the Similarities.

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Language is fascinating and confusing! Learn some words in other languages that don't translate to English with this great linguistics worksheet.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

Here is a writing activity to review terms and concepts from the Civil War era. Your child will imagine being a soldier in the war and write a journal entry.

Does this shark look strange to you? Learn all about why his tail is so long with a fun and informative coloring page!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Valentine's Day isn't just about handing out paper cards and heart-shaped candies -- it's about showing your family and friends how much you love them!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives.

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.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.