Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

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

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

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

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."

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

Learning how to figure out the trickier words is an essential tool for readers of all levels. This fun worksheet helps students practice using context clues and pictures to decode tricky words and improve their reading fluency skills.

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Your kid may have seen the movie, but has he ever read the story of Rapunzel? Here, the story of Rapunzel is told in its entirety with two different endings.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.