Prepare students for reading A Night to Remember by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity.

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

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.

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

You may not know of Dr. Jonas Salk, but your life has certainly been affected by him! This famous scientist created the polio vaccine.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Sail away to the exotic and mysterious Easter Island!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

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

It's always perfect weather for writing poems! Engage students in writing poetry with this fun activity. Go outside and start thinking creatively!

This worksheet teaches first graders the important role that diagrams play in informational text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Answering "Why" Questions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring Character Motivation.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Enjoy part four of this five-part series of the Russian folk tale, Teremok! Your child will get to color and build her reading skills.

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

This reading worksheet teaches your kid some cool things about computer-generated imagery. She'll read about special effects and practice thinking critically.

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.

In this worksheet, children learn about the role art plays in the celebration and messaging of Earth Day, which begain in 1970 to heighten awarness of environmental crises around the world.

Introduce children to American playwright Lorraine Hanberry, who was only 29 years old when she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play for "A Raisin in the Sun."

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions.

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first chapters of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.