Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

In Russian, the word teremok means "little hideaway". Give your child a fun, fresh way to practice her reading with this Russian folk tale.

These worksheets, which cover social studies, reading comprehension and writing, teach kids all about the Great Race of Mercy.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.

Help students turn instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a cohesive piece of procedural writing. Using transition words is the key to successful how-to writing!

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

How well does your little reader know the story of Rapunzel? Cut out the scenes and place them in the correct order for the complete tale.

What do you in Ancient Greece when you have more money than you need? You build a giant tomb structure, of course!

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

In this fun worksheet, read all about the Vodnici and then answer some critical thinking questions about the eyewitness accounts.