Students will learn about the sword maker Muramasa Sengo, read through the eyewitness accounts, and decide who the trustworthy source is!

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Parts and Making Predictions.

Continue the illustrated story of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

It's almost Christmas time! Get your child to let his holiday excitement out with this Christmas Eve writing prompt.

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

Ever wonder about those mysterious crop circles that show up in fields across the world? Engage in a fun conversation about this interesting type of geoglyph.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Evidence as a Statement.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

This worksheet helps guide kids along as they read their chosen book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Evidence.

Find out what happens next in this classic Christmas story, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Get straight to the point with this worksheet about fencing, one of the lesser-known Olympic sports.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Celebrating the New Year is all about tradition, and it's different in every culture! Many common traditions are actually based on superstition.

Read page 10 of The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen, and find out what will happen to the Emperor!

Use this writing response to test your little reader's understanding of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Read the conclusion to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens to find out what happens to Scrooge.

This coloring page features the Chimera from Greek mythology. It has the head of a goat, the body of a lion, and a tail of a snake!

Read part two of this classic tale by the Brothers Grimm! Enjoy a fun fairy tale series where your child can color in the illustrations herself.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.