After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book with this thoughtful extension activity! 

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.

After completing Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, help learners connect with the book with this community-based extension activity! 

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.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

First graders will gain exposure to the classic text by Charles Perrault, "The Sleeping Beauty", with this worksheet. After reading the story, kids are tasked with reading comprehension questions about what they read.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

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

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

If your child needs help understanding big ideas and concepts, have her tackle this helpful reading comprehension worksheet.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

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.

Use this worksheet to help students make a prediction about a characters’ actions.

Explore the most famous rock pile in the history of the world!

Put the sentences of the story in order from start to finish by numbering them. Read the story in the correct order when you're finished.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.