Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was a fascinating woman in history. Learn a bit more about her life with this history worksheet.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

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.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

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.

Challenge your student's knowledge of the U.S. presidents with this series of match-up games.

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Let's Read It With Expression!

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 19–25 of Anne of Green Gables.

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.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

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

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Your students will get to practice their writing and oral reading skills while learning more about their classmates with this fun questionnaire.

Meet the legendary John Henry, a famous character from a classic tall tale! Learn the difference between fact and fiction with this fun reading sheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

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

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

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

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.