Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Kids love nonsense, in case you haven't already noticed, and this wacky worksheet will work your wonderful wordsmith into a nonsense whirlwind.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

The Battle of Camden was a low point for the American forces in the Revolutionary War. Discover the errors made at the battle in this worksheet.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

Constellation legends are full of adventure. These worksheets focus on the constellations Perseus, Andromeda, Queen Cassiopeia and the sea monster Cetus.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

There are many endangered species all around the world. Read about the Amur leopard and why it's endangered with this information page.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.