Read a simple tale about pirates and stolen treasure, then chart the story on a map.

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

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!

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!

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

If you're good in Mexico, the Three Wise Men might come on Christmas Day and leave you candy and money!

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

Take flight with this ode to inventors! See the history of the helicopter, from its conception in ancient China to the modern vehicle it is today.

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.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Ever wonder why we hunt for Easter eggs? Discover how this spring holiday was started with this interesting look at the history of Easter.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Sail away to the exotic and mysterious Easter Island!

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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