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.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Help your child understand why it's so important to take care of the environment with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the spectacled bear.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

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.

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

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Kids who love space can learn all about the heroic Sally Ride, the first American woman to venture into space.

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

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

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

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths. Check out a little bit of kappa myth with this coloring page.

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

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